All, I'm getting an error when preparing text to write to a PDF document:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: U+2265 ('greaterequal') is not
available in this font's encoding: WinAnsiEncoding
at
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1Font.encode(PDType1Font.java:345)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont.encode(PDFont.java:286)
at
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont.getStringWidth(PDFont.java:315)
It's obvious that the ≥ symbol isn't available in the font we are using
(probably the default set of fonts... we aren't doing anything fancy at
this point).
Is there a good way to "sanitize" a string for the current font?
I can just start building a character-by-character replacement table,
but that's a little too whack-a-mole for my tastes. I'd prefer to do
something like ask the API what characters aren't okay, replace them
with something that IS okay (like "?") and log a warning. Then we can
collect the warnings and map the characters in a nicer way later.
Is there any way to do that kind of thing with PDFBox?
Thanks,
-chris
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