I would expect that Arial works, most other programs can use it without problems, for example I have no problem generating PDFs with Apache FOP with Arial. But I tried other fonts, and the same problem. Looks like there are more problems with encodings in pdfbox, maybe this problem is related?
http://w3facility.org/question/pdfbox-encode-symbol-currency-euro/ I can't use the hack described in the article, because I want to programmatically type some text in a field, unless I calculate the Euro sign position and use the appendRawCommands trick to draw it, but this sounds very ugly :-) > -----Original Message----- > From: Gilad Denneboom [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2015 10:17 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Euro not set in text field > > Maybe try using a different font? > > On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 2:51 AM, Frank Buss <[email protected]> wrote: > > > When I do this, it prints this exception: > > > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: U+8364 is > > not available in this font's Encoding > > at > > > org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDTrueTypeFont.encode(PDTrueTypeFont > .java:260) > > at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont.encode(PDFont.java:268) > > at > > org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont.getStringWidth(PDFont.java:297) > > at > > > org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper. > calculateHorizontalOffset(AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java:564) > > at > > > org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper.i > nsertGeneratedAppearance(AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java:305) > > at > > > org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper. > createAppearanceContent(AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java:228) > > at > > > org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper. > setAppearanceValue(AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java:203) > > at > > > org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGenerator.genera > teFieldAppearances(AppearanceGenerator.java:61) > > at > > > org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDField.updateFieldAppearan > ces(PDField.java:121) > > at > > > org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDTextField.setValue(PDTextF > ield.java:286) > > at PdfTest.main(PdfTest.java:15) > > > > which looks wrong, because as you can see in the the first text field in > > the sample PDF, it is possible to use the Euro sign, it is part of the > > Arial font. And I can open Word, set Arial as the font, then type Alt-8364 > > and the Euro sign appears, so looks like it is part of the font's Encoding. > > > > This bug is a show stopper for my application, because the Euro sign is > > required for a business application. > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Gilad Denneboom [mailto:[email protected]] > > > Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2015 5:39 PM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: Euro not set in text field > > > > > > Maybe try specifying the unicode value directly, like so: > > > test2.setValue("\u8364"); > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Frank Buss <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > I have a PDF document with a text field and I want to enter an euro > > symbol > > > > (€) with a program, but I'll get a strange character (¬). This is the > > code: > > > > > > > > import java.io.*; > > > > import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.*; > > > > import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.*; > > > > > > > > public class PdfTest { > > > > > > > > public static void main(final String args[]) throws Exception { > > > > // load test document > > > > PDDocument pdfDocument = PDDocument.load(new > > > > File("test.pdf")); > > > > PDDocumentCatalog docCatalog = > > > > pdfDocument.getDocumentCatalog(); > > > > PDAcroForm acroForm = docCatalog.getAcroForm(); > > > > > > > > // get test2 field and set Euro > > > > PDFieldTreeNode test2 = acroForm.getField("test2"); > > > > test2.setValue("€"); > > > > > > > > // save as new document > > > > pdfDocument.save("test2.pdf"); > > > > pdfDocument.close(); > > > > } > > > > } > > > > > > > > See http://www.frank-buss.de/tmp/pdfTest.zip for the test.pdf and > the > > > > generated test2.pdf. I'm using the latest snapshot > > > > (pdfbox-app-2.0.0-20150418.010411-1224.jar), but the same problem > was > > > in a > > > > snapshot from January, too. How can I solve the problem? I can try to > > fix > > > > it in the library, too, if someone can give me a hint where to search. > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
