Problem loading Courier New TTF

[Da...@gro-scotland.gsi.gov.uk]

Hi,

I'm having a problem loading Courier New as a true type font.  I'm using version 1.8.2.  I've noticed there are a lot of bugs regarding true type fonts, but one fix managed to fix loading Arial as a true type font (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1663).  I'm just wondering if there is any fix for Courier New?  If not, is there any work around?  The think the problem exists with the widths in Courier as:
PDType1Font.COURIER.getWidths(); returns null - would this be the same for the Courier New font I'm loading?

My code that works with Arial:

File fontfile = new File("C:\\WINDOWS\\Fonts\\ARIAL.ttf");
PDFont font = org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF(doc, fontfile);

My code that doesn't work with Courier New:

File fontfile = new File("C:\\WINDOWS\\Fonts\\COUR.ttf");
PDFont font = org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF(doc, fontfile);

Thanks in advance,
David

David Petrie
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Re: Problem loading Courier New TTF

[Andreas Lehmkühler <an...@lehmi.de>]

Hi,

> David.Petrie@gro-scotland.gsi.gov.uk hat am 24. September 2013 um 10:42 geschrieben:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having a problem loading Courier New as a true type font.  I'm using version 1.8.2.  I've noticed there are a lot of bugs regarding true type fonts, but one fix managed to fix loading Arial as a true type font (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1663).  I'm just wondering if there is any fix for Courier New?  If not, is there any work around?  The think the problem exists with the widths in Courier as:
> PDType1Font.COURIER.getWidths(); returns null - would this be the same for the Courier New font I'm loading?
> 
> My code that works with Arial:
> 
> File fontfile = new File("C:\\WINDOWS\\Fonts\\ARIAL.ttf");
> PDFont font = org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF(doc, fontfile);
> 
> My code that doesn't work with Courier New:
> 
> File fontfile = new File("C:\\WINDOWS\\Fonts\\COUR.ttf");
> PDFont font = org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF(doc, fontfile);
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> David
Hmm, I somehow didn't get the point. If you are using true type fonts the class
PDType1Font isn't involved,
consequently there can't be a problem with getWidths().
What exactly are you trying to do? Do you get a stacktrace?

> David Petrie
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