When I faced a similar issue I followed Tilman's advice in the JIRA issue I opened about it (and which was linked to above), and it worked fine. Basically what I did was create the form fields in Acrobat in advance and set them as having Adobe Hebrew as their font. That forces the font to be embedded in the PDF. I then applied the value using PDFBox and set the NeedsAppearances flag as true. When I open the file in Acrobat/Reader the text appeared correctly. I'm not sure about other PDF viewers, though. They are generally problematic when it comes to form fields in general, so I try to avoid them.
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 5:44 AM, Mickael Marrache <[email protected] > wrote: > Thanks for looking at this. > > Is there an estimate for when PDFBox will be able to support it? > > Could you please propose alternative libraries that we can use in the > meantime? Free libraries preferred but not only. > > Thanks, > Mickael > > Le 28 avr. 2017 01:14, "Maruan Sahyoun" <[email protected]> a écrit : > > > OK, I had a look at this. > > > > At this point in time PDFBox doesn't support the appearance generation > for > > RTL text. The reason you see the text reverted is because one would need > to > > handle the text in visual order. > > > > So where PDFBox writes the string as > > > > \000\250\000\243\000\245\000\232\000\246 > > > > Adobe Reader writes the string as > > > > \000\246\000\232\000\245\000\243\000\250 > > > > This could be fixed but wouldn't be sufficient to completely handle > Hebrew > > and other languages whith complex-text requirements (word forming, > > character shaping, BIDI …). > > > > At that point in time PDFBox doesn't provide the capabilites needed. > > > > BR > > Maruan > > > > > > > Am 26.04.2017 um 12:34 schrieb Mickael Marrache < > > [email protected]>: > > > > > > The PDF before filling: > > > > > > http://docdro.id/ybLln7x > > > > > > The PDF after filling: > > > > > > http://docdro.id/QcZfT9H > > > > > > On 2017-04-26 10:56 (+0300), Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >>> Am 26.04.2017 um 08:19 schrieb Mickael Marrache < > > [email protected]>: > > >>> > > >>> Hi, > > >>> > > >>> I'm trying to fill a PDF form using PDFBox 2.0.5 as follows: > > >>> > > >>> PDDocument pdfDocument = > > >>> PDDocument.load(this.getClass().getClassLoader(). > > getResourceAsStream("form.pdf")); > > >>> PDAcroForm acroForm = pdfDocument.getDocumentCatalog(). > getAcroForm(); > > >>> > > >>> PDResources formResources = acroForm.getDefaultResources(); > > >>> PDTrueTypeFont font = (PDTrueTypeFont) > > >>> formResources.getFont(COSName.getPDFName("David,Bold")); > > >>> > > >>> TrueTypeFont ttFont = font.getTrueTypeFont(); > > >>> > > >>> PDFont font2 = PDType0Font.load(pdfDocument, ttFont, true); > > >>> ttFont.close(); > > >>> > > >>> formResources.put(COSName.getPDFName("F0"), font2); > > >>> > > >>> if (acroForm != null) { > > >>> PDTextField field = (PDTextField) acroForm.getField("full_name"); > > >>> field.setDefaultAppearance("/F0 10 Tf 0 g"); > > >>> field.setValue(/* hebrew text here*/); > > >>> } > > >>> > > >>> File targetFile = File.createTempFile("", ".pdf"); > > >>> pdfDocument.save(targetFile); > > >>> pdfDocument.close(); > > >>> > > >>> The reason I embed the David,Bold font is explained here > > >>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42903217/write- > > cyrillic-chars-into-pdf-form-fields-with-pdfbox > > >> > > >> > > >> could you upload a PDF before and after filling to a public location? > > >> > > >> BR > > >> Maruan > > >> > > >> > > >>> . > > >>> > > >>> The issue is that the resulting PDF file has the text in the > full_name > > >>> textbox displayed in the reverse direction. However, if I click on > the > > >>> textbox, the text appears correctly. I precise that the text filled > in > > the > > >>> textbox is in Hebrew (right-to-left). > > >>> > > >>> Any idea? > > >>> > > >>> Thanks, > > >>> Mickael > > >> > > >> > > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > >> > > >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > >
