How to write arabic text in a pdf file

[MELIQUE Denis (MORPHO)]

Classification SAFRAN IDENTITY AND SECURITY :INDUSTRY CONFIDENTIAL

Hello, 

I'm using pdfbox version 2.0.6 on Linux 7.
My Java program reads a pdf template file and fill some areas (image and text) 
to produce a new pdf document .
There is English text written LeftToRight and Arabic text to be written 
RightToLeft.

Here is an extract of  template document loading and configuration : 
{code}
....
            fontStream = classLoader.getResourceAsStream("arialbd.ttf");

            logger.debug("Loading PDF template file ");
            doc = PDDocument.load(pdfTemplateStream);

            logger.debug("Loading font file into the document");
            PDFont font =  PDType0Font.load(doc, fontStream); 

            // Will edit the page 0 
            PDPage page = doc.getPage(0);
            doc.setDocumentInformation(docInfo);

            PDPageContentStream content = new PDPageContentStream(doc, page,  
PDPageContentStream.AppendMode.APPEND, false, true);

            content.setFont(font, fontSize); ...
{code}


Here is an extract of adding text : 
{code}
        content.beginText();
        content.showText(text);
        content.endText();
{code}


My problem is that the Arabic text is not printed correctly into the pdf 
document, I do not know Arab language so it is hard to see what is wrong but my 
feeling is that the text is written in a wrong order...
For example the following text composed of  'Single' + a slash +  the Arab 
translation of the word 'Single' :  Single / زيارة واحدة Is printed like this : 
Single / ةرايز ةدحاو

Any Idea what I should do to fix this ? 

Thank you.




This message has been marked as INDUSTRY CONFIDENTIAL by MELIQUE Denis (MORPHO) 
on 06/13/2017 15:22:02.
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