The reason for choosing PDFBox instead of Apache FOP is that it (a) is easier to generate simple PDFs, and (b) uses less disk space.
Martin On 20.03.2012, at 08:59, mehdi houshmand wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Why is it you're using PDFBox to create these PDFs? Have you considered > using Apache FOP (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/)? Is there a specific > reason you're using PDFBox specifically? > > Mehdi > > On 20 March 2012 06:49, Kévin Sailly <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> The same for me. >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1242?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel#issue-tabs >> >> Kévin >> >> 2012/3/20 Martin Hentschel <[email protected]> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I want to follow up on this message "€ in PDF": >>> http://markmail.org/message/h4skurvieiyk7izq >>> >>> I spent hours trying to figure out how to create a PDF document >> containing >>> the Euro symbol. The output is always garbled. Same happens for endash >>> and emdash symbols. >>> >>> Attached you find a text file and an output PDF created by the TextToPDF >>> utility. >>> >>> Thanks for your help, >>> >>> Martin >>> >>> (I also tried using TTF fonts, but didn't help.) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>
