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[jira] [Created] (PDFBOX-4425) Font Encoding Feature

Pruteanu Dragos created PDFBOX-4425:
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Summary: Font Encoding Feature
Key: PDFBOX-4425
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-4425
Project: PDFBox
Issue Type: New Feature
Affects Versions: 2.0.13
Reporter: Pruteanu Dragos

I use PdfBox in an desktop application, which can be used by any user, with any language( EN, Chinese, etc. ). There are cases when I get exceptions like this:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:U+F0A7('.notedef' is not available in this font Helvetica-Bold encoding: WinAnsiEncoding

at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfmodel.font.PDType1Font.encode(PDType1Font.jaav:426), PdfFont.encode(PDFont.java:324), PDFont.getStringWidth(PDFont.java:353),... be.quodlibet.boxable.....

I am using the boxable library to represent tables in PdfBox. This case seems to be from a text where a bullet is used ( a kind of ''*').

How is possible for me to avoid this errors ? I would like the characters which cannot be mapped to be simply skipped and throw no exception. Maybe to have a PdfBox setting .setIgnoreUnknownCharacters() ?

Also, which is the best approach so PdfBox works for peoples using Chinese on their computer ? Can PdfBox look for the proper font in the Operating System ?

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