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Maruan Sahyoun commented on PDFBOX-3165:
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That's a duplicate of PDFBOX-3161. What we might be able to do is ignore (some) 
special characters. Would you have a sample form to replicate the issue?

> Tab characters in PDTextField cause error when using .flatten()
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-3165
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3165
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: AcroForm, FontBox
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.0
>         Environment: Ubuntu, JDK7
>            Reporter: Aaron Eischeid
>
> pdf form gets filled in, then call I call .flatten(fields, true) which last I 
> knew was undocumented, but anyway I needed the refreshAppearences for 
> pdfViewers that don't support acroForms like pdf.js
> If a tab character some how gets entered into the PDTextField it chokes. I am 
> worried other somewhat common characters might have similar issues, but 
> haven't experimented so far.
> Using RC2 of pdfBox and fontBox. and fonts in pdfForm elements were all set 
> to Arial.
> Relavent stacktrace:
> {
>   "cause": {
>     "cause": null,
>     "class": "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException",
>     "localizedMessage": "U+0009 is not available in this font's Encoding",
>     "message": "U+0009 is not available in this font's Encoding",
>     "stackTrace": [
>       {
>         "class": "java.lang.StackTraceElement",
>         "className": "org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDTrueTypeFont",
>         "fileName": "PDTrueTypeFont.java",
>         "lineNumber": 358,
>         "methodName": "encode",
>         "nativeMethod": false
>       },
>       {
>         "class": "java.lang.StackTraceElement",
>         "className": "org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont",
>         "fileName": "PDFont.java",
>         "lineNumber": 283,
>         "methodName": "encode",
>         "nativeMethod": false
>       },
>       {
>         "class": "java.lang.StackTraceElement",
>         "className": "org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont",
>         "fileName": "PDFont.java",
>         "lineNumber": 312,
>         "methodName": "getStringWidth",
>         "nativeMethod": false
>       },
>       {
>         "class": "java.lang.StackTraceElement",
>         "className": 
> "org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PlainTextFormatter",
>         "fileName": "PlainTextFormatter.java",
>         "lineNumber": 193,
>         "methodName": "format",
>         "nativeMethod": false
>       },
>       {
>         "class": "java.lang.StackTraceElement",
>         "className": 
> "org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper",
>         "fileName": "AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java",
>         "lineNumber": 373,
>         "methodName": "insertGeneratedAppearance",
>         "nativeMethod": false
>       },
>       {
>         "class": "java.lang.StackTraceElement",
>         "className": 
> "org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper",
>         "fileName": "AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java",
>         "lineNumber": 237,
>         "methodName": "setAppearanceContent",
>         "nativeMethod": false
>       },
>       {
>         "class": "java.lang.StackTraceElement",
>         "className": 
> "org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper",
>         "fileName": "AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java",
>         "lineNumber": 144,
>         "methodName": "setAppearanceValue",
>         "nativeMethod": false
>       },
>       {
>         "class": "java.lang.StackTraceElement",
>         "className": "org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDTextField",
>         "fileName": "PDTextField.java",
>         "lineNumber": 263,
>         "methodName": "constructAppearances",
>         "nativeMethod": false
>       },
>       {
>         "class": "java.lang.StackTraceElement",
>         "className": "org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDAcroForm",
>         "fileName": "PDAcroForm.java",
>         "lineNumber": 287,
>         "methodName": "refreshAppearances",
>         "nativeMethod": false
>       },
>       {
>         "class": "java.lang.StackTraceElement",
>         "className": "org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDAcroForm",
>         "fileName": "PDAcroForm.java",
>         "lineNumber": 211,
>         "methodName": "flatten",
>         "nativeMethod": false
>       },



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