[PDFBOX-2954] Exception when trying to write Spanish or French characters

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: Writing
• Environment: Windows 10, Java 8
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ivan de la Fuente
• Created: 02/Sep/15 14:22
• Updated: 03/Sep/15 18:37
• Resolved: 03/Sep/15 10:08

Description

When I create a PDF with PDFBOX 2.0.0 SNAPSHOT using the typical Hello World example with Spanish and French characters:

    PDDocument document = new PDDocument();
    PDPage page = new PDPage(PDRectangle.A4);
    document.addPage(page);
    PDType1Font font = PDType1Font.HELVETICA;

    PDPageContentStream stream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page);
    String text = "áÁÀà";
    stream.beginText();
    stream.setFont(font, 12);
    stream.newLineAtOffset(100, 700);
    stream.showText(text);
    stream.endText();
    stream.close();
    document.save("sample.pdf");
    document.close();

I get this error:

sep 02, 2015 12:42:43 PM org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1Font <init>
ADVERTENCIA: Using fallback font ArialMT for base font ZapfDingbats
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: This font type only supports 8-bit code points

If I load arialuni.ttf font with Type0 it compiles but only get question marks instead of the correct characters in the PDF file.

I have tried PDFBOX 1.8 and doesn´t work either.