[jira] [Created] (PDFBOX-3504) Special characters issue

["KUMARA SWAMY PALLUKURI (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

KUMARA SWAMY PALLUKURI created PDFBOX-3504:
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             Summary: Special characters issue
                 Key: PDFBOX-3504
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3504
             Project: PDFBox
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: FontBox
    Affects Versions: 2.0.0
         Environment: Test
            Reporter: KUMARA SWAMY PALLUKURI
             Fix For: 2.0.0


The Pdfbox version 2.0.0 ,special characters are not supporting while 
eg: "α"(alpha)

My sample code:
package com.test;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPageContentStream;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.common.PDRectangle;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1Font;

public class SimpleTest {

	public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
		SimpleTest s = new SimpleTest();
		s.pdfGeneration();
	}

	public void pdfGeneration() throws IOException {
		String outputFileName = "Simple123.pdf";

		// Create a document and add a page to it
		PDDocument document = new PDDocument();
		PDPage page1 = new PDPage(PDRectangle.A4);
		// PDRectangle.LETTER and others are also possible
		PDRectangle rect = page1.getMediaBox();
		// rect can be used to get the page width and height
		document.addPage(page1);

		// Create a new font object selecting one of the PDF base fonts
		PDFont fontPlain = PDType1Font.HELVETICA;
		PDFont fontBold = PDType1Font.HELVETICA_BOLD;
		PDFont fontItalic = PDType1Font.HELVETICA_OBLIQUE;
		PDFont fontMono = PDType1Font.COURIER;

		// Start a new content stream which will "hold" the to be created
		// content
		PDPageContentStream cos = new PDPageContentStream(document, page1);

		int line = 0;

		List<String> sampleData = new ArrayList<String>();
		sampleData.add("ss1 s");
		sampleData.add("dd α");
		// String tt ="sss";
		for (String tt : sampleData) {
			++line;
			drawText(cos, fontPlain,  tt, rect, line);

		}
		cos.close();

		document.save(outputFileName);
		document.close();
	}

	public void drawText(PDPageContentStream cos, PDFont fontPlain,String text,
			PDRectangle rect, int line) throws IOException {

		try {

			cos.beginText();
			cos.setFont(fontPlain, 12);
			cos.newLineAtOffset(100, rect.getHeight() - 50 * (line));
			cos.showText(text);
			cos.endText();
		} catch (Exception e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		//	cos.endText();
		} 
	}
}

Exception:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: U+03B1 ('alpha') is not available in this font's encoding: WinAnsiEncoding
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1Font.encode(PDType1Font.java:345)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont.encode(PDFont.java:286)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPageContentStream.showText(PDPageContentStream.java:411)
	at com.test.SimpleTest.drawText(SimpleTest.java:67)
	at com.test.SimpleTest.pdfGeneration(SimpleTest.java:50)
	at com.test.SimpleTest.main(SimpleTest.java:18)


And also please let me know whether pdf box will supports for localization or not?



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