Hi Tilman, You were on the right track ... the PDF document resides on the linux box and when I clicked on it to view it, my secure shell window on my windows desktop FTP'ed it to my desktop in the ASCII format. When I told it to transfer in a binary format, it showed the text output.
Thanks Jeff (Extremely embarrassed) -----Original Message----- From: Tilman Hausherr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 3:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Blank page when creating document in Linux Additional thought: how do you display the file? And did you try to display the linux created file on windows? Tilman Am 30.04.2014 08:03, schrieb Tilman Hausherr: > Hi, > > Your text is a bit contradictory, "We develop on Windows but deploy > our software to run on Linux" means it is the same, but further in the > text you tell that you are using a different constructor on LINUX. > > Could you try to copy the fonts you are using on LINUX to the Windows > version and run it there? What happens? > > If it doesn't work, does that happen with any afm / pfb combination? > > Have you seen the HelloWorldType1AfmPfb.java code, does this one work > on LINUX? If yes, what happens if you modify the > > PDFont font = new PDType1AfmPfbFont(doc,fontfile); > > line to the lines you mention below? > > If it doesn't work, what happens if you use the 2.0 version? > https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots/org/apache/pdfb > ox/pdfbox/2.0.0-SNAPSHOT/ > > > Tilman > > Am 29.04.2014 18:06, schrieb Jeffrey Elrod: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'm using PDFBox to create a PDF document for our Registrars >> Department. We develop on Windows but deploy our software to run on >> Linux. Mostly PL/SQL development, but this development item I'm >> writing in Java. >> >> On windows, I generate the PDF successfully. But on Linux the >> document is blank. Same number of pages, just all of them are blank. >> I tried using another font but to no avail. For windows I used the >> static method PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF. >> >> InputStream fontStream = >> GenerateLOMReport.class.getResourceAsStream("/org/apache/pdfbox/resou >> rces/ttf/ArialMT.ttf"); >> >> PDFont font = PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF(document, fontStream); >> >> For Linux/Unix I use the constructor PDType1AfmPfbFont. >> >> InputStream afmStream = new FileInputStream(new >> File("/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/a010013l.afm")); >> >> InputStream pfbStream = new FileInputStream(new >> File("/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/a010013l.pfb")); >> >> PDFont font = new PDType1AfmPfbFont(document, afmStream, pfbStream); >> >> I would greatly appreciate any help. >> >> Jeffrey F. Elrod >> >> Senior Applications Analyst >> >> CCIT -- Enterprise Applications >> >> Clemson University >> > >
