Hello,
I am using pdfbox 2.0.5 to fill out form fields of a PDF document using this
code:
doc = PDDocument.load(inputStream);
PDDocumentCatalog catalog = doc.getDocumentCatalog();
PDAcroForm form = catalog.getAcroForm();
for (PDField field : form.getFieldTree()){
field.setValue("должен");
}
I get this error: U+0434 ('afii10069') is not available in this font
Times-Roman (generic: TimesNewRomanPSMT) encoding: StandardEncoding with
differences
I can create the PDF documents any way I like. I have tried MS Office export as
Adobe PDF and creating directly with Acrobat Pro DC. When creating the fields
in Acrobat I can select a font. I tried all kinds of fonts, for "Arial Unicode
MS" it wants to download a 50MB "Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Font Pack". The final
PDF file with the filled out form fields should be viewable/printable by anyone
without first installing a font pack
The PDF document itself contains cyrillic text which is displayed just fine.
Filling out the form in Acrobat Reader works flawlessly, the only problem is in
PDFBox.
According to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3138 The embedded
font used by the field does indeed contain Hebrew glyphs, and a valid "cmap"
table which can be used to look up those glyphs. The mentioned character,
U+05D7, is indeed is present in the font. The embedded font file is in OpenType
format, however the PDF Font dictionary is Type1 and specifies WinAnsiEncoding,
which does not include Hebrew characters. So, strictly speaking, the field
cannot be filled using any non-ANSI characters and so PDFBox's behaviour is
correct.
Tried another approach: Instead of setValue() I called
((PDTextField)field).setDefaultValue(); It does not throw an exception, but
unfortunately in the result PDF I still see the previous default value in the
document. The new default value only appears in the properties of the field.
Using this code I see that the font is a PDTrueTypeFont:
String da = field.getCOSObject().getString(COSName.DA.getName());
Matcher m = Pattern.compile("/?(.*) [\\d]+ Tf.*",
Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE).matcher(da);
String name = m.find() ? m.group(1) : null;
PDFont font =
field.getAcroForm().getDefaultResources().getFont(COSName.getPDFName(name));
How can I create the PDF document and use PDFBox to fill out the form with
non-ansi characters?
Thanks,
Roland
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