Am Samstag, den 08.05.2010, 16:51 +0200 schrieb Andreas Lehmkuehler:
> Hi,
>
> dysign.ch schrieb:
> > Hello everybody
> >
> > I recently started a java project where one of the tasks is to generate
> > pdf files from some stored texts. As I'm from Switzerland, many texts
> > contain umlauts like ä,ö or ü. When pdfbox parses my strings with e.g.
> > contentStream.drawString(str); the result looks qite crappy if the
> > string contains umlauts, all umlaut characters are replaced with squares
> > and between everu normal character there is an additional space (string
> > comes from document with 'normal' ascii coding). If I convert the source
> > document/string to use UTF 8, the result looks even worse.
> >
> > How can I tell pdfbox to print such umlauts correctly (it doesn't matter
> > if I'd have to use embedded fonts or external ttfs, I'm just happy if it
> > works somehow).
> You should use an external ttf which supports umlauts, see [1] how to do that.
> Convert your text to UTF-8 before calling drawString().
>
> HTH
> Andreas Lehmkühler
>
> [1]
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pdfbox/trunk/pdfbox/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/HelloWorldTTF.java
Sorry,
but thats to fast for me. drawString expects a String, and a Java String
is AFAIK always UTF-16.
Playing a little bit with HelloWorldTTF.java i got poor results with
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/VeraMoBI.ttf
and
java.io.IOException: Unknown cmap format:12
at
org.apache.fontbox.ttf.CMAPEncodingEntry.initSubtable(CMAPEncodingEntry.java:157)
at org.apache.fontbox.ttf.CMAPTable.initData(CMAPTable.java:90)
at org.apache.fontbox.ttf.TTFParser.parseTTF(TTFParser.java:144)
at org.apache.fontbox.ttf.TTFParser.parseTTF(TTFParser.java:87)
at
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDTrueTypeFont.loadDescriptorDictionary(PDTrueTypeFont.java:193)
at
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF(PDTrueTypeFont.java:153)
at
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF(PDTrueTypeFont.java:130)
with the
DejaVu-font /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf.
Can anybody point me some examples how to do it right?
Regards
Michael
