Re: question about adding Chinese characters to a PDF file

[John Hewson <jo...@jahewson.com>]

Hi,

Unicode doesn't work properly in 1.8. You need to use a pre-release version of PDFBox 2.0, which is available via SVN trunk, or as a SNAPSHOT jar download from our website. Check out the HelloWorldTTF example in 2.0.

P.S. I've CC'd our users mailing list, please ask future questions there.

-- John

> On 27 Mar 2015, at 04:32, 朱曼 <zh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear John,
> 
> When I tried to add Chinese to a PDF file, I get a PDF with strange characters. I noticed that you have been helped others about this issue before, for example, on this page, https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-922
> But I am sorry that I am still puzzled about how to do this job. Could you please help me? Many many thanks!
> 
> Here is the code I am using:
> 
> PDDocument document = new PDDocument();
> PDPage page = new PDPage();
> 		document.addPage(page);
> 		try {
> 			contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page);
> 			PDFont font = PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF(document, "font/f1.ttf");
> 
> 		contentStream.beginText();
> 		contentStream.setFont(font, 30);
> 		contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount(100, 700);
> 		contentStream.drawString("银行");
> 		contentStream.endText();
> 
> 		contentStream.close();
> 		document.save("test.pdf");
> 		document.close();
> 		} catch (IOException e) {
> 			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
> 			e.printStackTrace();
> 		}  catch (COSVisitorException e) {
> 			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
> 			e.printStackTrace();
> 		}
> 
> Attached please find the font file, and the pdf file generated.
> <f1.ttf>
> <test.pdf>