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Antti Lankila edited comment on PDFBOX-922 at 10/9/14 8:00 AM:
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I remain mildly confused about the subsetting. Why not just embed the entire
font and render it as CID keyed font? I have a (misnamed) attachment in
SourceForge where I am hoping that next jPod release will incorporate some
useful functions:
http://sourceforge.net/p/jpodlib/patches/_discuss/thread/97a19659/a7dd/attachment/PDFBoxImprovements.java
The Unicode support here works with the loadCIDFromTTF() method. It constructs
the CID font and the unicode CMAP for copy-paste. Note that in jPod, fonts
encode themselves through the mapping, the content stream generator calls
font's Encoding's encode(String) method to generate byte sequences to embed
into the document. This is the API that PDFBox must adopt, if it hasn't
already. (PDFBox also wants a decode() method, I guess, but I did not provide
one because it was not necessary for solving my immediate problem.)
was (Author: [email protected]):
I remain mildly confused about the subsetting. Why not just embed the entire
font and render it as CID keyed font? I have a (misnamed) attachment in
SourceForge where I am hoping that next jPod release will incorporate some
useful functions:
http://sourceforge.net/p/jpodlib/patches/_discuss/thread/97a19659/a7dd/attachment/PDFBoxImprovements.java
The Unicode support here works with the loadCIDFromTTF() method. It constructs
the CID font and the unicode CMAP for copy-paste. Note that in jPod, fonts
encode themselves through the mapping, the content stream generator calls
font's encode(String) method to generate byte sequences to embed into the
document. This is the API that PDFBox must adopt, if it hasn't already. (PDFBox
also wants a decode() method, I guess, but I did not provide one because it was
not necessary for solving my immediate problem.)
> True type PDFont subclass only supports WinAnsiEncoding (hardcoded!)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: PDFBOX-922
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-922
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Writing
> Affects Versions: 1.3.1
> Environment: JDK 1.6 / OS irrelevant, tried against 1.3.1 and 1.2.0
> Reporter: Thanos Agelatos
> Assignee: Andreas Lehmkühler
> Attachments: pdfbox-unicode.diff, pdfbox-unicode2.diff
>
>
> PDFBox cannot embed Identity-H or Identity-V type TTF fonts in the PDF it
> creates, making it impossible to create PDFs in any language apart from
> English and ones supported in WinAnsiEncoding. This behaviour is caused
> because method PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF has hardcoded WinAnsiEncoding inside,
> and there is no Identity-H or Identity-V Encoding classes provided (to set
> afterwards via PDFont.setFont() )
> This excludes the following languages plus many others:
> - Greek
> - Bulgarian
> - Swedish
> - Baltic languages
> - Malteze
> The PDF created contains garbled characters and/or squares.
> Simple test case:
> PDDocument doc = null;
> try {
> doc = new PDDocument();
> PDPage page = new PDPage();
> doc.addPage(page);
> // extract fonts for fields
> byte[] arialNorm = extractFont("arial.ttf");
> //byte[] arialBold = extractFont("arialbd.ttf");
> //PDFont font = PDType1Font.HELVETICA;
> PDFont font = PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF(doc, new
> ByteArrayInputStream(arialNorm));
>
> PDPageContentStream contentStream = new
> PDPageContentStream(doc, page);
> contentStream.beginText();
> contentStream.setFont(font, 12);
> contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount(100, 700);
> contentStream.drawString("Hello world from PDFBox
> ελληνικά"); // text here may appear garbled; insert any text in Greek or
> Bulgarian or Malteze
> contentStream.endText();
> contentStream.close();
> doc.save("pdfbox.pdf");
> System.out.println(" created!");
> } catch (Exception ioe) {
> ioe.printStackTrace();
> } finally {
> if (doc != null) {
> try { doc.close(); } catch (Exception e) {}
> }
> }
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