Am 01.03.2017 um 23:55 schrieb Christopher Schultz:
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?
You could call PDFont.encode() for each character and catch IllegalArgumentException, and replace your string with whatever you like.
Btw maybe the symbol is available - you're using WinAnsiEncoding. If you use font files (call PDType0Font.load()), then you can use much more glyphs.
Tilman
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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