[jira] [Commented] (PDFBOX-1452) Greek Pdfs print out wrong characters

["Maruan Sahyoun (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Maruan Sahyoun commented on PDFBOX-1452:
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Hi Plimmer,

I do understand some of your frustration but as pdfbox is driven by volunteers in their spare time there is a limited amount of workload we can handle. On the other hand as this is a community effort there is always the chance for someone to jump in and help fixing the issue. PDF printing is not the easiest task though that's why there is more effort required to fix issues like the one you are describing.

BR Maruan
                
> Greek Pdfs print out wrong characters 
> --------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-1452
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1452
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 1.7.1, 1.8.0
>         Environment: windows 7, Windows Vista 
>            Reporter: Plimmer  Keen
>              Labels: bug, greek, pi, print, silent
>         Attachments: test4.pdf
>
>
> This issue resembles the PDFBOX-770 bug which was fixed in version 1.5.0, however in case of  PDFBOX-770 problem occurred while extracting the text, in my case 
> I have the same problem but while printing (silent print). 
> E.G. in Greek PDF 
> a) Greek letter π is printed as pi. "προσώπων" would become "piροσώpiων" on paper.
> b) The Greek letter μ is printed  as µ ... which is slightly different on paper as the proper μ.
> c) I think there is also an issue with Ω...but I will confirm this later.
> As an example PDF ..the same pdf as in case of PDFBOX-770 can be used. Unfortunately I cannot post the results as results are on paper...
> So, I cannot print any Greek PDF, as it comes out unreadable... 
> Please address the issue, a fix might be somehow  similar to 770's fix..though I couldn't find any reference what was the problem then in a first place...
> Thanks in advance...
> P.K.

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