[PDFBOX-922] True type PDFont subclass only supports WinAnsiEncoding (hardcoded!)

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: Writing
• Environment: JDK 1.6 / OS irrelevant, tried against 1.3.1 and 1.2.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Thanos Agelatos
• Created: 15/Dec/10 21:42
• Updated: 29/Mar/16 11:01
• Resolved: 12/Dec/14 22:09

Description

PDFBox cannot embed Identity-H or Identity-V type TTF fonts in the PDF it creates, making it impossible to create PDFs in any language apart from English and ones supported in WinAnsiEncoding. This behaviour is caused because method PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF has hardcoded WinAnsiEncoding inside, and there is no Identity-H or Identity-V Encoding classes provided (to set afterwards via PDFont.setFont() )

This excludes the following languages plus many others:

• Greek
• Bulgarian
• Swedish
• Baltic languages
• Malteze

The PDF created contains garbled characters and/or squares.

Simple test case:

                PDDocument doc = null;
		try {
			doc = new PDDocument();
			PDPage page = new PDPage();
			doc.addPage(page);
			// extract fonts for fields
			byte[] arialNorm = extractFont("arial.ttf");
			//byte[] arialBold = extractFont("arialbd.ttf"); 
			//PDFont font = PDType1Font.HELVETICA;
			PDFont font = PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF(doc, new ByteArrayInputStream(arialNorm));
			
			PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(doc, page);
			contentStream.beginText();
			contentStream.setFont(font, 12);
			contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount(100, 700);
			contentStream.drawString("Hello world from PDFBox ελληνικά"); // text here may appear garbled; insert any text in Greek or Bulgarian or Malteze
			contentStream.endText();
			contentStream.close();
			doc.save("pdfbox.pdf");
			System.out.println(" created!");
		} catch (Exception ioe) {
			ioe.printStackTrace();
		} finally {
			if (doc != null) {
				try { doc.close(); } catch (Exception e) {}
			}
		}

Issue Links

• duplicates: PDFBOX-553 writing pdf file in Japanese, garbled
• is depended upon by: PDFBOX-283 Character encoding/appearance issues when filling forms
• is depended upon by: PDFBOX-1441 Convert text to pdf in polish (pl_PL) grabbled
• is depended upon by: PDFBOX-903 Unicode text getting mangled via TextToPDF + PDFTextStripper
• is depended upon by: PDFBOX-1242 Handle non ISO-8859-1 chars with drawString
• is duplicated by: PDFBOX-1569 Chinese, Korean - MultiByte Character displayed incorrectly
• is duplicated by: PDFBOX-1071 Can not generate chinese character PDF file
• is duplicated by: PDFBOX-1705 can not Write Hebrew and Chinese word into a PDF
• is duplicated by: PDFBOX-1785 Print the chinese character
• is duplicated by: PDFBOX-212 PDF Document cut German Umlauts
• relates to: PDFBOX-2565 Subset embedded TTF fonts
• supercedes: PDFBOX-903 Unicode text getting mangled via TextToPDF + PDFTextStripper