[PDFBOX-3550] OpenType Shaping

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: FontBox, PDModel
• Labels: unicode
• Environment: All
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Omid Pourhadi
• Created: 01/Nov/16 06:35
• Updated: 07/Sep/17 15:46

Description

the problem is, in some languages letters need to be joined together for example, consider this word

سلام
but after creating a pdf it contorts to

س‌ل‌ام
with extra semi-spaces. I think this is a bug in pdfbox and definetly is not related to font.

SampleCode.java

public class SampleCode
{
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
    {
        
        PDDocument document = new PDDocument();
	//this font perfectly works in iText and JasperReport with the same text
        PDFont titleFont = PDType0Font.load(document, SampleCode.class.getResourceAsStream("/BYekan.ttf"));

        PDPage page = new PDPage(PDRectangle.A4);
        document.addPage(page);
        PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page);

        contentStream.beginText();
        contentStream.setFont(titleFont, 12);
        contentStream.newLineAtOffset(0, 100);
        contentStream.showText("سلام");
        contentStream.endText();
        contentStream.close();
        
      
        document.save(new File("/home/omidp/temp/htmltopdf/output.pdf"));
        document.close();
    }


}

Issue Links

• duplicates: PDFBOX-3583 Seperate arabic character issue
• duplicates: PDFBOX-3924 How to flatten pdf which contains acroform fields
• is duplicated by: PDFBOX-3582 Arabic Annotation issue