That's good to know. I might need to look for an alternative solution. Thank you!
> From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: how to write Chinese characters > Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 08:59:13 +0200 > > I guess you mean this : > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-553 > > We are all waiting for this to be fixed. > > > Best regards , > Hesham > > --------------------------------------------- > Included message : > > > > > > > > I am new to PDFBox, and I couldn't figure out how to write Chinese > > characters to pdf file. With the code snippet below, the result pdf file > > displays some squares and strange symbols, instead of the correct Chinese > > character. And Acrobat Reader pops up a message, saying "The font '??' > > contains bad /Widths." > > > > PDFont font = PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF(document, > > "C:\\Windows\\fonts\\simkai.ttf"); > > PDPageContentStream contentStream = new > > PDPageContentStream(document, page); > > > > contentStream.beginText(); > > contentStream.setFont(font, 12); > > contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount(100, 700); > > contentStream.drawString("\u59D3"); > > contentStream.endText(); > > > > > > What am I missing? Is there a code sample for generating PDF files with > > Asian characters? > > > > > > Thanks! > > -Jian > > >
