Hi,
Thanks for the answer, Tilman. I managed to get the Devanagari text exactly as it should, by using java.awt.font.layoutGlyphVector(). Are they any chances to write a GlyphVector in a PDFBox page? Thanks, Claudius On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > This is not supported, sorry. PDFBox just outputs the glyphs for the > single characters and does not replace for ligatures. > > Tilman > > > Am 14.01.2017 um 08:44 schrieb Claudius Teodorescu: > >> Hi, >> >> I am using pdfbox 2.0.4, and I am trying to output a pdf document with >> text following devanagari text: कारणत्त्वङ्गवाश्वादीनमपीति चेत् युक्तम्. >> >> The code is very simple: >> @Test >> public void testPdfBox() throws IOException { >> PDDocument document = new PDDocument(); >> PDPage page = new PDPage(); >> document.addPage(page); >> >> PDFont font = PDType0Font.load(document, >> new File("/home/claudius/workspace >> s/repositories/backup/fonts/Sanskrit2003.ttf")); >> >> PDPageContentStream contentStream = new >> PDPageContentStream(document, page); >> >> contentStream.beginText(); >> contentStream.setFont(font, 12); >> contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount(100, 700); >> contentStream.showText("कारणत्त्वङ्गवाश्वादीनमपीति चेत् युक्तम्"); >> contentStream.endText(); >> >> // Make sure that the content stream is closed: >> contentStream.close(); >> >> // Save the results and ensure that the document is properly >> closed: >> document.save("target/" + name.getMethodName() + ".pdf"); >> document.close(); >> } >> >> The output pdf file (attached) is not rendering correctly the string, as >> it is above. Namely, the ligatures are not displayed, as if they do not >> exist. On the other hand, if I am copying the text from the pdf file, and >> paste it in eclipse, it shows perfectly. >> >> I checked the pdf output with evince, firefox, and adobe reader 9, in >> ubuntu. >> >> Any idea on how to fix this display issue? >> >> Thanks, >> Claudius >> >> -- >> http://kuberam.ro >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > > > -- http://kuberam.ro
