[jira] [Created] (PDFBOX-5212) Cannot create document containing certain characters in Symbol font

["Rainer Pichler (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Rainer Pichler created PDFBOX-5212:
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             Summary: Cannot create document containing certain characters in Symbol font
                 Key: PDFBOX-5212
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-5212
             Project: PDFBox
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: PDModel
    Affects Versions: 2.0.24
         Environment: Windows 10, Java 8
            Reporter: Rainer Pichler
         Attachments: SymbolFileGenerator.java, output.txt

I try to generate a document using the Standard 14 Font PDType1Font.SYMBOL.
Using this font constant should neither result in embedding and nor require the font on the document-generating system as each reader supplies a compatible font (https://pdfbox.apache.org/1.8/cookbook/workingwithfonts.html).

This initally works. But for verifying completeness, I wrote the attached a sample code that contains all Symbol characters.
Several characters cannot be written (see attached output.txt). There are two distinct error cases:

1.) Characters not in the file glyphlist.txt, e.g. U+220D ('.notdef') is not available in this font Symbol encoding: SymbolEncoding

2.) Characters that are in the file glyphlist.txt but cannot be mapped to the SymbolEncoding due to a missing entry or different name, e.g. U+0394 ('Deltagreek') is not available in this font Symbol encoding: SymbolEncoding
In this case, the problem can be addressed by replacing the "wrong" mapping by (0104, "Deltagreek") in SymbolEncoding.

As I understand, this approach should work as it translates the encoding via the glyphlist.txt and SymbolEncoding.



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