[PDFBOX-1753] The font gets gibbrish when adding a line of text to an existing PDF with a table

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.2
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.3, 2.0.0
• Component/s: PDModel
• Environment: Windows 7
• Assignee: Andreas Lehmkühler
• Reporter: Anita Kulkarni
• Created: 22/Oct/13 14:55
• Updated: 30/Nov/13 17:02
• Resolved: 26/Oct/13 09:41

Description

When trying to add a line to the existing PDF document with a table the table headers appear gibberish.
the table header used to be PMITS Asset ID and after adding the header it reads as: 3 0 , 7 6 $ V V H W. some gibberish characters. Here is my code:
// the document
PDDocument doc = null;
try
{
doc = PDDocument.load( file );

List allPages = doc.getDocumentCatalog().getAllPages();
//PDFont font = PDType1Font.HELVETICA_BOLD;

for( int i=0; i<allPages.size(); i++ )

{ PDPage page = (PDPage)allPages.get( i ); PDRectangle pageSize = page.findMediaBox(); PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(doc, page, true, true,true); PDFont font = PDType1Font.TIMES_ROMAN; float fontSize = 15.0f; contentStream.beginText(); // set font and font size contentStream.setFont( font, fontSize); contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount(700, 1150); contentStream.drawString( message); contentStream.endText(); //contentStream. contentStream.close();}

doc.save( outfile );
}
finally
{
if( doc != null )

{ doc.close(); }

}
}
Stack overflow has a lot of discussion about this issue and explained by user MLK
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19322553/adding-header-to-existing-pdf-file-using-pdfbox
I am not sure how to attache the test PDF to this issue.