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

["Charlie B (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Charlie B commented on PDFBOX-922:
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Hi Wolfgang, Andreas, 

Again I'm wondering if you have any solid plans for unicode text API in the near future?

Thanks for any info or ETA on 2.0.
                
> True type PDFont subclass only supports WinAnsiEncoding (hardcoded!)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-922
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-922
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: FontBox, PDModel, Writing
>    Affects Versions: 1.3.1
>         Environment: JDK 1.6 / OS irrelevant, tried against 1.3.1 and 1.2.0
>            Reporter: Thanos Agelatos
>
> 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) {}
> 			}
> 		}

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