UTF-8 encoding when writing to a PDF

[Brook Davies]

I am totally stuck on this one. I am using an old Ben Forta tag cf_pdfform.
I’m still using it because it makes writing to a PDF form and populating
fields easier than using the native cfpdf form population methods.

The problem is that any strings with UTF-8 characters get truncated at the
first character.

The method basically takes an XMl string of form data and the PDF form/file
and returns the populated PDF document (in this case in bytes). The XML I am
testing with looks good:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xfdf><fields><field
name="activities"><value>Grave accent (à, è, ù): Over a or u, used primarily
to distinguish homophones: à ("to") vs. a ("has"), ou ("or") vs1. où
("where", note that ù exists1 only in this word). Over an e, 1indicates the
sound</value></field></fields></xfdf>

        // PDF form input stream
        formIS=CreateObject("java", "java.io.FileInputStream");
        formIS.init(ARGUMENTS.PDFForm);

        // Get PDF document object
        PDFfactory=server.javaLoader.create("com.adobe.pdf.PDFFactory");
        PDFdoc=PDFfactory.openDocument(formIS);

        // Convert raw XML data to byte array
        bytes=ARGUMENTS.XMLData.getBytes("UTF-8");
        byteArrayIS=CreateObject("java", "java.io.ByteArrayInputStream");
        byteArrayIS.init(bytes);

        // Perform actual import
        PDFdoc.importFormData(byteArrayIS);

        //Call the PDFDocument object's save method
        outputIS=PDFdoc.save();

        // Read bytes
        byteClass=CreateObject("java", "java.lang.Byte").TYPE;
        PDFBytes=CreateObject("java",
"java.lang.reflect.Array").newInstance(byteClass, outputIS.available());

        // And store them
        outputIS.read(PDFBytes);

But when I executed the code below and then write the bytes via CFILE
CHARSET=”UTF-8”, the form field data is truncated in the resulting PDF.
Anybody have any ideas?

Brook



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