[PDFBOX-3805] Exception while reading text file using createPDFFromText of apache pdfbox 2.0.6 version

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.6
• Environment: Windows 7, java 1.8 version
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Varun Joshi
• Created: 23/May/17 10:04
• Updated: 02/Jun/17 04:44
• Resolved: 02/Jun/17 04:44

Description

While using createPDFFromText() of TextToPDF, throwing exception when tab comes while reading text file. Attached is the java(PDFToText.java) sample program which I am executing and sample data text file (sampleTextRead2.txt) which is being read.

Below is the exception while executing :-

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: U+0009 ('controlHT') is not available in this font Helvetica encoding: WinAnsiEncoding
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1Font.encode(PDType1Font.java:425)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont.encode(PDFont.java:323)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont.getStringWidth(PDFont.java:352)
at org.apache.pdfbox.tools.TextToPDF.createPDFFromText(TextToPDF.java:197)
at org.apache.pdfbox.tools.TextToPDF.createPDFFromText(TextToPDF.java:98)
at PDFStripper.PDFToText.main(PDFToText.java:23)

Issue Links

• relates to: PDFBOX-1807 TextToPDF strips leading spaces from input file