Hello Tan, my answer will not make you happy. I asked similar question ( http://markmail.org/message/l6au7uo4ytt6zzlf) and got answer that UTF-8 support will be added with https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-922. Vote on that issue if you want to have it solved.
I ended up to use PdfClown library where it was easy to add UTF-8 text with embedding TTF font into PDF document. The only problem I found with PdfClown is that it doesn't support font subsetting and the resulting PDF gets very big by embedding the whole TTF font. See my feature request https://sourceforge.net/p/clown/feature-requests/14/. The PDFBOX-922 ticket is the second most voted so hopefully it will be added. Sincerely, Martin 2013/12/18 Tan YuQiang <[email protected]> > I can write free text annotation with UTF-8 string successfully, but when > i use PDPageContentStream to draw UTF-8 string, it is not written > correctly. why? > My code is like below: > PDFont font = PDType1Font.TIMES_ROMAN; > contentStream.setFont(font, fontSize ); //PDPageContentStream > contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount(x, y); > contentStream.drawString(info.getText()); > > Thank you for any hint, > Devin Tan > > > > > > >
