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Posted to dev@pdfbox.apache.org by "Maruan Sahyoun (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org> on 2015/02/04 00:10:35 UTC
[jira] [Resolved] (PDFBOX-1550) Helv vs. Helvetica font names cause
PDField.setValue to fail
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1550?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Maruan Sahyoun resolved PDFBOX-1550.
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Resolution: Fixed
Implemented lookup mechanism to use the reference to the font resource from the default appearance as the font name if the resource does not exist and try finding that font.
This is a workaround to a wrong definition in the form. The default appearance shall point to the resource name and not names within the resource.
> Helv vs. Helvetica font names cause PDField.setValue to fail
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> Key: PDFBOX-1550
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1550
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: AcroForm
> Affects Versions: 1.8.0
> Environment: Mac OS X 10.8.3
> Oracle Java 1.7.0_15-b03
> Reporter: Wes Morgan
> Assignee: Maruan Sahyoun
> Labels: Appearance
> Fix For: 2.0.0
>
> Attachments: co_absentee.en.filled.pdf, co_absentee.en.pdf
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> I have a PDF form using AcroForm that generates a "Don't know how to calculate the position for non-simple fonts" exception when calling setValue on a textbox field. After running it in a debugger, it appears the problem is that the font inside the AcroForm resources is named "Helv" but PDFBox gets "Helvetica" as the cosFontName on line 434 of PDAppearance.java. So then when it tries to get the font from the formResources on line 439 (formResources.getFonts().get( fontName );), it returns null because there is no "Helvetica" font, only "Helv". I changed the fontName variable's value to "Helv" in the debugger and that allowed setValue to complete without error.
> Is this a problem with the form? I didn't see any way to fix it in Acrobat Pro's UI.
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