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Guido Leenders commented on PDFBOX-1215:
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Oh yes, in this case the solution was not to make changes to the
pdfbox_external_fonts.properties, but to add the ttf fonts to /usr/share/fonts.
> 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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