[PDFBOX-3403] IllegalArgumentException: Symbolic fonts must have a built-in encoding

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.3, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: PDModel
• Assignee: John Hewson
• Reporter: Tilman Hausherr
• Created: 28/Jun/16 06:12
• Updated: 25/Mar/17 18:12
• Resolved: 07/Aug/16 13:02

Description

Happens with text extraction and rendering:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Symbolic fonts must have a built-in encoding
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.encoding.DictionaryEncoding.<init>(DictionaryEncoding.java:113)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDSimpleFont.readEncoding(PDSimpleFont.java:126)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1CFont.<init>(PDType1CFont.java:131)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFontFactory.createFont(PDFontFactory.java:60)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDResources.getFont(PDResources.java:123)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.contentstream.operator.text.SetFontAndSize.process(SetFontAndSize.java:60)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.contentstream.PDFStreamEngine.processOperator(PDFStreamEngine.java:829)

Issue Links

• links to: PDFBox “Symbolic fonts must have a built-in encoding” error when using PDFTextStripper.getText()