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[jira] [Comment Edited] (PDFBOX-3255) Reasonable way to handle
missing characters in font
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Christian Brandt edited comment on PDFBOX-3255 at 3/1/16 2:41 PM:
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Oh well, the web site did hide that hyphen, but it looks like "a-b" except that the hyphen is not a normal hyphen but a soft hyphen instead.
was (Author: dadacafe):
Oh well, the web site did hide that hyphen too, but it looks like "a-b" except that the hyphen is not a normal hyphen.
> Reasonable way to handle missing characters in font
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> Key: PDFBOX-3255
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3255
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: AcroForm
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0
> Reporter: Christian Brandt
> Labels: newbie
> Attachments: TEST.pdf
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> Hello,
> We have an issue with setting form field values if the input contains characters that cannot be rendered with the associated font. The system throws similar exception to:
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: U+0308 ('dieresiscmb') is not available in this font's encoding: MacRomanEncoding with differences
> Currently this is problematic to be handled outside the framework because based on my understanding (please correct me if I'm wrong) the caller does not have a way to figure out what font will be eventually used and therefore which characters are not renderable.
> What we would ultimately like, is that the library would optionally replace unrenderable characters with some another existing character (e.g. space) instead of failing the call, or that the library would provide a way to recover from this error so that the user would be able to call the method again with altered input.
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