Re: € in PDF

[Jeremias Maerki <de...@jeremias-maerki.ch>]

Hi Richard,

I think the easiest solution is to use a different font. The AFM files
from Adobe for the Base 14 fonts are from a pre-Euro-era (1997) and
don't contain metrics for the Euro glyph. With some hacking, you could
probably retrofit it as today's PDF viewers all have a Euro glyph, even
for the Euro glyph. But then, they usually display an ugly Arial instead
of Helvetica.

On 15.07.2011 10:21:19 Richard van Heest wrote:
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> 
> Hello,
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> Does anyone know how to print an €-sign into a PDF, using the PDFBox-library?
> 
> I use the normal way of writing into a pdf with this code:
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> PDPage page = this.getPage(pagenr);
> 
> PDPageContentStream stream;
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> try {
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>       stream = new PDPageContentStream(this.document, page, true, false);
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>       stream.setFont(PDType1Font.HELVETICA, 10);
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>       stream.setNonStrokingColor(Color.black);
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>  
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>       stream.beginText();
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>       stream.moveTextPositionByAmount(5, 7);
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>       stream.drawString("€"); 
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>       stream.endText();
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>       stream.close();
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> }
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> catch(IOException e) {
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>       e.printStackTrace();
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> }
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> 
> But then some other signs appears (look in the attachment).
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> This also happens when I use the Unicode “\u20AC” instead of “€”.
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> So, does anyone know how to do this?
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> Thanks a lot!
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> Richard van Heest
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> Prins Bernhardlaan 116
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> 3241 TA  MIDDELHARNIS
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> Tel. 0187-482094
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> Mob. 06-51040247
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> E-mail  <ma...@solcon.nl> richardvanheest@solcon.nl
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Jeremias Maerki