The development version (0.8.0) has far better font support. I believe you will need to download the source code & compile it, but I think it will do what you want.
If one of the other developers knows where a build is available, please correct me! Daniel Wilson On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Khaled Daifallah <thecaptin...@gmail.com>wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I'm using Apache PDFBox0.7.3 library in order to fill out text-fields of a > PDF form . > Some of the filled values are in Arabic, so the problem that when i open > the > PDF form after filling by Adobe Reader 9 or Adobe Acrobat 9 pro, i get > question marks (???) instead of the Arabic letters. > > now i'll go into details. > 1- I created the PDF form using Adobe LifeCycle Designer. > 2- The problem only appears with Arabic letters (no problem with English > letters). > 3- the font which is used for the fields is Arial so i tried to embed both > Arial and Arial Blod as: > > PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load(formPath); > PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF( doc,new File(path_of_the_ttf_file) ); > PDDocumentCatalog docCatalog = doc.getDocumentCatalog(); > PDAcroForm acroForm = docCatalog.getAcroForm(); > ........... *Filling the fields with the values here ..........* > acroForm.setXFA( null ); > doc.save(destPath); > doc.close(); > > But this didn't work (i still get question marks for the Arabic > letters). > > > 4- When i fill the text-fields of the PDF form manually (by Adobe Acrobat 9 > pro) i get no problem. > > 5- i tried to edit the file "PDFBox_External_Fonts.properties" as well, and > i copied the fonts to the path "Resources/ttf". but i still get question > marks. > > i've working on this problem for more than 10 days, and i'm stucked now. > and you are my final salvation. PLEASE HELP ME IF YOU CAN. > > > Thanks for your concern > KHALED DAIFALLAH. > > > > > > > > -- > The Captin 121 > KHALED >
