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Subject: Re: Supporting Unicode characters to fill in an existing PDF with
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From: Maruan Sahyoun <sahyoun@fileaffairs.de>
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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 10:11:25 +0200
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Hi,

> Am 18.08.2015 um 00:49 schrieb Rakshit Ashtekar <arakshit@tibco.com>:
>=20
> Hello,
>=20
> I am using PDFBox 2.0 dev snapshot to support Unicode characters. I =
have
> few questions:
>=20
> I want to write an existing PDF file which have few PDTextField with
> Unicode characters.
>=20
> I am using PDType0Font to load an external .ttf file
> (Arial-Unicode-Regular.ttf) and setting the new font object to the
> PDResources. Code snippet below:
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> PDType0Font font =3D PDType0Font.load(pdfDocument, new
> File("Arial-Unicode-Regular.ttf"));
> // Add and set the resources and default appearance at the form level
> PDResources res =3D new PDResources();
> COSName fontName =3D res.add(font);
> acroForm.setDefaultResources(res);
> String da =3D "/" + fontName.getName() + " 12 Tf 0 g";
> acroForm.setDefaultAppearance(da);
>=20
> But I am getting below exception
> java.io.IOException: Could not find font: /CourierNewPSMT
> at
> =
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDAppearanceString.getFont(PDAp=
pearanceString.java:126)

the reason is very likely that the field you are trying to fill has a =
default appearance where the font is set to CourierNewPSMT. You need to =
also set the default appearance for the field to use the loaded font.

If you could upload your file to a public location I can take a closer =
look.

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> I saw a similar ticket - =
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2848
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> *My questions:*
> 1. Does PDFBox 2.0 supports Unicode characters values to be set on an
> existing PDF file which has PDTextField using setValue(String value) =
of the
> PDTextField? I saw an example where Unicode characters are supported =
but
> that PDF is created from scratch and it did not have AcroForms.

Unicode for field values is supported as of PDFBox 2.0

>=20
> 2. Will the .ttf file currently in sources of /
> pdfbox/src/main/resources/org/apache/pdfbox/resources/ttf/ be packaged =
with
> the final PDFBox jar? or the developers have to load it externally?

Yes,

BR
Maruan

>=20
> Appreciate your help.
>=20
> Thanks,
> Rakshit


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