I'm curious why you shouldn't load fonts that are scanned in by PDFBox using org.apache.fontbox.util.autodetect.FontDirFinder and instead reference a hard coded system directory? -----Original Message----- From: John Hewson [mailto:j...@jahewson.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 3:09 AM To: users@pdfbox.apache.org Subject: Re: Supporting multiple languages, including CJK
> On 12 Oct 2016, at 05:24, Daniel King <dk...@halogensoftware.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm attempting to write text to a PDF in situations where I need to > support multiple languages on a single PDF. This may include regular > latin characters as well as CJK characters. I've tried many attempts > to do this and have it load the character sets from the OS without > much success. The farthest I have gotten is support latin characters, > some russian and I believe Vietnamese characters founds on the > embedded fonts example here > https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/pdfbox/trunk/examples/src/main/java/org/ > apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/EmbeddedFonts.java?view=markup > > I'm doing a similar approach from the example but I believe I'm using > the FileSystemFontProvider provided by the FontMappers class by doing > something such as > > TrueTypeFont ttf = FontMappers.instance().getTrueTypeFont("Arial", > null).getFont(); PDFont font = PDType0Font.load(signatureDocument, > ttf.getOriginalData()); Don’t load fonts like this. Follow the approach from the EmbeddedFonts example and load them from the filesystem. > As I mentioned I seem to be able to support the text in the EmbeddedFonts > example but can't seem to determine how I can also support CJK. I’m currently > using 2.0.2 of PDFBox but could potentially upgrade to 2.0.3 if that would > help at all. If you have a font which supports CJK then PDFBox should be able to use it. I recommend “Arial Unicode MS” as a good starting point, as it provides many more Unicode characters than plain “Arial”. Google’s Noto fonts also provide a great selection of characters. — John > Thanks for the help, > Dan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org
