Re: Problem with getting zero font height

[Tilman Hausherr <TH...@t-online.de>]

Hello Fred,
Andreas tested and it works, and now I tested and it works. What I did 
this time (don't know what I did last time) is to use the PDFBox command 
line app, and use the "ExtractText" feature. Could you please try again?

If it still doesn't work, please post your code. Preferably to 
PDFBOX-2023 in JIRA.

Tilman

Am 11.04.2014 06:40, schrieb Fred Andrews:
> I am using PDFTextStripper on some PDF statements from Bank of America,
> and everything is coming through as zero height.
> I traced it down to getFontHeight in
> org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDSimpleFont, which is indeed getting
> zero.  The font is a type 3 font and I'm not sure how it should work,
> but getFontHeight is calling getAFM() and that is returning a null
> because its not a type 1 font.  Then in the next section in
> getFontHeight there are no font descriptors, and the zero just flows
> through all the way through getFontHeight.
>
> I searched for anything I could key on to calculate the font height but
> couldn't find it.  The font size is claimed to be 20 by getFontSize(),
> although it appears to be more like 8. I did trace to where it got a
> font size command of twenty, but somehow I'm assuming that would need to
> be scaled, and I can't see where that might come from.
>
> The font width on the other hand looks accurate, and I would think
> something similar to that would be needed, but would really appreciate
> some guidance on how it should work.  If I have clue on how it should
> work I can see what I can do to implement it.
>
> This file displays fine in Acrobat and edits fine in Nitro, so it can't
> be that invalid.
>