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John Hewson updated PDFBOX-1550:
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Description:
I have a PDF form using AcroForm that generates a "Don't know how to calculate
the position for non-simple fonts" exception when calling setValue on a textbox
field. After running it in a debugger, it appears the problem is that the font
inside the AcroForm resources is named "Helv" but PDFBox gets "Helvetica" as
the cosFontName on line 434 of PDAppearance.java. So then when it tries to get
the font from the formResources on line 439 (formResources.getFonts().get(
fontName );), it returns null because there is no "Helvetica" font, only
"Helv". I changed the fontName variable's value to "Helv" in the debugger and
that allowed setValue to complete without error.
Is this a problem with the form? I didn't see any way to fix it in Acrobat
Pro's UI.
was:
I have a PDF form (a Colorado absentee ballot application form;
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26964/co_absentee.en.pdf) using AcroForm that
generates a "Don't know how to calculate the position for non-simple fonts"
exception when calling setValue on a textbox field. After running it in a
debugger, it appears the problem is that the font inside the AcroForm resources
is named "Helv" but PDFBox gets "Helvetica" as the cosFontName on line 434 of
PDAppearance.java. So then when it tries to get the font from the formResources
on line 439 (formResources.getFonts().get( fontName );), it returns null
because there is no "Helvetica" font, only "Helv". I changed the fontName
variable's value to "Helv" in the debugger and that allowed setValue to
complete without error.
Is this a problem with the form? I didn't see any way to fix it in Acrobat
Pro's UI.
> Helv vs. Helvetica font names cause PDField.setValue to fail
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>
> Key: PDFBOX-1550
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1550
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: AcroForm
> Affects Versions: 1.8.0
> Environment: Mac OS X 10.8.3
> Oracle Java 1.7.0_15-b03
> PDFBox 1.8.0
> Error happens with this form:
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26964/co_absentee.en.pdf
> Reporter: Wes Morgan
> Fix For: 2.0.0
>
> Attachments: co_absentee.en.pdf
>
>
> I have a PDF form using AcroForm that generates a "Don't know how to
> calculate the position for non-simple fonts" exception when calling setValue
> on a textbox field. After running it in a debugger, it appears the problem is
> that the font inside the AcroForm resources is named "Helv" but PDFBox gets
> "Helvetica" as the cosFontName on line 434 of PDAppearance.java. So then when
> it tries to get the font from the formResources on line 439
> (formResources.getFonts().get( fontName );), it returns null because there is
> no "Helvetica" font, only "Helv". I changed the fontName variable's value to
> "Helv" in the debugger and that allowed setValue to complete without error.
> Is this a problem with the form? I didn't see any way to fix it in Acrobat
> Pro's UI.
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