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bug with the Type3 font

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Resolution: Fixed
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    • 2.0.0
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      [imported from SourceForge]
      http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?group_id=78314&atid=552832&aid=1086372
      Originally submitted by jinfeng_wang on 2004-12-16 03:49.

      hi, ben , today i found another bug withe the type3
      font.

      you know, the type3 font is used to display some other
      special "chatacter" exception the ASCII font, for
      example, the maths formula, the CJK chararter in some
      PDF file. in the PDFont.encode(), it will revoke the
      following :
      retval = encoding.getCharacter( getCodeFromArray( c,
      offset, length ) );

      in the static Encoding.getCharacter( COSName name ),
      it should return the charcter according to the cosname.
      however, in the encoding.getCharacte() , it will return
      the cosname when meeting a "special character".

      i think the following code should be comment out:
      if( character == null )

      { // it will return the Name to replace the correct chacter. character = name.getName(); }

      [comment on SourceForge]
      Originally sent by jinfeng_wang.
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      the PDF file using Type3 Font:

      http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/race/indian/cp-3-
      7/tab01.pdf - the dash character is Type3 font.
      http://www.math.pku.edu.cn/course/probability/download/11.
      pdf - all the Chinese is Type3 font.
      http://ee-wcl.tamu.edu/itw2004/program/yeung_inv.pdf

      you can refer the PDF Reference version 1.5 page 386.
      http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/pdf/index_referen
      ce.html

      you can try to copy the text from the adobe reader , and
      comparing to the result of the PDFBox.

      certainly, if the Encoding.getCharacter() can return null as i
      have modified, the code in PDFStreamEngine.showString()
      should be corrected as following :

      if (c!=null)

      { stringResult.append( c ); log.info("char="+c); }

      else

      { continue; }

      [comment on SourceForge]
      Originally sent by benlitchfield.
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      user_id=601708

      Please attach or mail me a pdf with this.

      Thanks
      ben@csh.rit.edu

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        1. PDFBOX31-yeung_inv.pdf
          191 kB
          Andreas Lehmkühler
        2. PDFBOX31-tab01.pdf
          505 kB
          Andreas Lehmkühler

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