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Jens Kleemann commented on PDFBOX-932:
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i agree on the submitter. This is a major drawback of the pdfbox formfill
mechanism. I applied the patch to 1.7.0-SNAPSHOT and it works for german
umlaute also.
> Swedish characters are garbled in form
> --------------------------------------
>
> Key: PDFBOX-932
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-932
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: PDModel.AcroForm
> Affects Versions: 1.4.0
> Environment: Mac OSX, Java6
> Reporter: Pär Wenåker
>
> When using swedish characters to fill in a form they show up garbled in the
> PDF. This seems to have to do with the PDAppearance class. When calling
> setValue on the field, the value seems to be set ok since COSString handles
> characters outside ASCII in its writePDF method. When PDAppearance writes the
> value in insertGeneratedAppearance it does not do the same check. If the same
> check is done it seems to work for PDAppearance to (see patch below). Since I
> do not know very much about the PDF format, I dont know if this is the right
> way to do it...
> PDDocument document = PDDocument.load(<pdf-file>);
> PDDocumentCatalog docCatalog = document.getDocumentCatalog();
> PDAcroForm form = docCatalog.getAcroForm();
> PDField field = form.getField(<field name>);
> field.setValue("åäö");
> @@ -400,9 +401,32 @@
> {
> throw new IOException( "Error: Unknown justification value:" + q
> );
> }
> - printWriter.println("(" + value + ") Tj");
> - printWriter.println("ET" );
> - printWriter.flush();
> + boolean outsideASCII = false;
> + byte[] bytes = value.getBytes("ISO-8859-1");
> + int length = bytes.length;
> +
> + for( int i=0; i<length && !outsideASCII; i++ )
> + {
> + //if the byte is negative then it is an eight bit byte and is
> + //outside the ASCII range.
> + outsideASCII = bytes[i] <0;
> + }
> + if(!outsideASCII) {
> + printWriter.println("(" + value + ") Tj");
> + printWriter.println("ET" );
> + printWriter.flush();
> + } else {
> + printWriter.print("<");
> + for(int i=0; i<length; i++ )
> + {
> + String val = COSHEXTable.HEX_TABLE[ (bytes[i]+256)%256 ];
>
> + printWriter.write(val);
> + }
> + printWriter.println("> Tj");
> + printWriter.println("ET" );
> + printWriter.flush();
> + }
> }
>
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