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[jira] [Commented] (PDFBOX-5230) Zero-width non-joiner characters
visible in generated PDF
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Tilman Hausherr commented on PDFBOX-5230:
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Character shaping isn't done in PDFBox. I started DTL OTMaster 3.7 light and I looked at the Arial font in windows and the glyph you mention is at GID 744 and yes there is a shape. In Arial Unicode it is at 3233 and there is no shape. Maybe WORD decides for itself never to show this glyph?
I tested using it in WORD and saved as PDF, in the final PDF the "glyph" was missing, but WORD takes care to separate the two.
> Zero-width non-joiner characters visible in generated PDF
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: PDFBOX-5230
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-5230
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: FontBox, PDModel, Writing
> Affects Versions: 2.0.16
> Reporter: Daniel Gredler
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: Af.pdf, zwnj.pdf
>
>
> I'd like to use the [zero-width non-joiner|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_non-joiner] (ZWNJ) character to prevent character shaping in some cases when using Arabic and Indic scripts. This works correctly using some fonts like Arial Unicode (character shaping is prevented and no ZWNJ glyph is visible in the PDF), but does not work correctly when using fonts like Tahoma or Google Noto Sans Regular, where the ZWNJ character is visible in the PDF. The ZWNJ glyph is not visible when using these fonts in other programs, like Microsoft Word.
> I suspect that the `advanceWidth` settings in the `hmtx` table should be taken into account somehow but are not, because the `advanceWidth` for this glyph is 0 in both of these fonts which are erroneously generating visual artifacts for the ZWNJ character (Tahoma and Google Noto Sans Regular).
> Test case generating the attached PDF file:
> {code:java}
> public class ZwnjTest {
> public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
> try (PDDocument document = new PDDocument()) {
> PDPage page = new PDPage(PDRectangle.LETTER);
> document.addPage(page);
> try (PDPageContentStream stream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page)) {
> // Tahoma: ZWNJ glyph is a vertical bar, but advanceWidth in hmtx table is 0 -> shown in PDF anyway (unexpected)
> PDFont tahoma = PDType0Font.load(document, new File("C:/Windows/Fonts/tahoma.ttf"));
> stream.beginText();
> stream.setFont(tahoma, 20);
> stream.newLineAtOffset(50, 650);
> stream.showText("t\u200Ce\u200Cs\u200Ct\u200C \u200C1"); // U+200C = zero width non-joiner
> stream.endText();
> // Arial Unicode: ZWNJ glyph contains no outline -> not shown in PDF (as expected)
> PDFont arialu = PDType0Font.load(document, new File("C:/Windows/Fonts/ARIALUNI.TTF"));
> stream.beginText();
> stream.setFont(arialu, 20);
> stream.newLineAtOffset(50, 600);
> stream.showText("t\u200Ce\u200Cs\u200Ct\u200C \u200C2"); // U+200C = zero width non-joiner
> stream.endText();
> // Google Noto Sans Regular: ZWNJ glyph is a vertical bar, but advanceWidth in hmtx table is 0 -> shown in PDF anyway (unexpected)
> PDFont gnotos = PDType0Font.load(document, new File("noto-sans-regular.ttf"));
> stream.beginText();
> stream.setFont(gnotos, 20);
> stream.newLineAtOffset(50, 550);
> stream.showText("t\u200Ce\u200Cs\u200Ct\u200C \u200C3"); // U+200C = zero width non-joiner
> stream.endText();
> }
> document.save("zwnj.pdf");
> }
> }
> }
> {code}
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