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Tilman Hausherr edited comment on PDFBOX-3504 at 9/19/16 5:58 PM:
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The problem is that the alpha is not part of the "Latin Character Set and
Encodings" set that is used for HELVETICA font.
This code works:
{code}
PDType0Font font = PDType0Font.load(document, new
File("c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf"));
stream.setFont(font, 12);
stream.showText("α");
{code}
However you may have found a bug anyway. "Alpha" is part of the "Symbol Set and
Encoding" that is used for the SYMBOL font, but I didn't get that to work. So I
won't close this for now :-)
was (Author: tilman):
The problem is that the alpha is not part of the "Latin Character Set and
Encodings" set that is used for HELVETICA glyphs.
This code works:
{code}
PDType0Font font = PDType0Font.load(document, new
File("c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf"));
stream.setFont(font, 12);
stream.showText("α");
{code}
However you may have found a bug anyway. "Alpha" is part of the "Symbol Set and
Encoding" that is used for the SYMBOL font, but I didn't get that to work. So I
won't close this for now :-)
> Special characters issue
> ------------------------
>
> Key: PDFBOX-3504
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3504
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: FontBox
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0
> Environment: Test
> Reporter: KUMARA SWAMY PALLUKURI
> Labels: newbie
>
> special characters are not supporting in my program
> eg: "α"(alpha)
> My sample code:
> {code}
> package com.test;
> import java.io.IOException;
> import java.util.ArrayList;
> import java.util.List;
> import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
> import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage;
> import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPageContentStream;
> import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.common.PDRectangle;
> import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont;
> import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1Font;
> public class SimpleTest {
> public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
> SimpleTest s = new SimpleTest();
> s.pdfGeneration();
> }
> public void pdfGeneration() throws IOException {
> String outputFileName = "Simple123.pdf";
> // Create a document and add a page to it
> PDDocument document = new PDDocument();
> PDPage page1 = new PDPage(PDRectangle.A4);
> // PDRectangle.LETTER and others are also possible
> PDRectangle rect = page1.getMediaBox();
> // rect can be used to get the page width and height
> document.addPage(page1);
> // Create a new font object selecting one of the PDF base fonts
> PDFont fontPlain = PDType1Font.HELVETICA;
> PDFont fontBold = PDType1Font.HELVETICA_BOLD;
> PDFont fontItalic = PDType1Font.HELVETICA_OBLIQUE;
> PDFont fontMono = PDType1Font.COURIER;
> // Start a new content stream which will "hold" the to be
> created
> // content
> PDPageContentStream cos = new PDPageContentStream(document,
> page1);
> int line = 0;
> List<String> sampleData = new ArrayList<String>();
> sampleData.add("ss1 s");
> sampleData.add("dd α");
> // String tt ="sss";
> for (String tt : sampleData) {
> ++line;
> drawText(cos, fontPlain, tt, rect, line);
> }
> cos.close();
> document.save(outputFileName);
> document.close();
> }
> public void drawText(PDPageContentStream cos, PDFont fontPlain,String
> text,
> PDRectangle rect, int line) throws IOException {
> try {
> cos.beginText();
> cos.setFont(fontPlain, 12);
> cos.newLineAtOffset(100, rect.getHeight() - 50 *
> (line));
> cos.showText(text);
> cos.endText();
> } catch (Exception e) {
> e.printStackTrace();
> // cos.endText();
> }
> }
> }
> {code}
> Exception:
> {code}
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: U+03B1 ('alpha') is not available in this
> font's encoding: WinAnsiEncoding
> at
> org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1Font.encode(PDType1Font.java:345)
> at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont.encode(PDFont.java:286)
> at
> org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPageContentStream.showText(PDPageContentStream.java:411)
> at com.test.SimpleTest.drawText(SimpleTest.java:67)
> at com.test.SimpleTest.pdfGeneration(SimpleTest.java:50)
> at com.test.SimpleTest.main(SimpleTest.java:18)
> {code}
> And also please let me know whether pdf box will supports for localization or
> not?
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