Can not render PDF with Simplified Chinese due to changing font to the default
font
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Key: PDFBOX-1215
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1215
Project: PDFBox
Issue Type: Improvement
Affects Versions: 1.7.0
Environment: Linux 2.6.18, x64, java version "1.6.0_29-ea"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_29-ea-b08)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.4-b01, mixed mode)
Version 1.7.0 from trunk on January 24.
Reporter: Guido Leenders
Priority: Minor
Using pdfbox to render the first page of pdf documents to images for use in
manuals. Currently, we are adding Chinese language support.
In PDSimpleFont, the code prints and used to print:
WARNING: Changing font on <รข> from <Lucida Sans Regular> to the default font
With European fonts, the result was not very pretty but acceptable. With
Chinese characters, the default font just shows "squares".
Added entries to pdfbox_external_fonts.properties for better Unicode support of
the fonts to be used, such as:
Arial Bold=org/apache/pdfbox/resources/ttf/ARIALUNI.TTF
Lucida Sans Regular=org/apache/pdfbox/resources/ttf/ARIALUNI.TTF
Did not change fontmapping.properties. And rebuild. Also tested with normal
Windows ttf files for Lucida Sans. Still squares and errors. Looked for another
hour in the source code, but was unable to find what the problem was.
Suggested improvement: provide better hints to user what to do to resolve this
issue.
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