Wes Morgan created PDFBOX-1550:
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Summary: Helv vs. Helvetica font names cause PDField.setValue to
fail
Key: PDFBOX-1550
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1550
Project: PDFBox
Issue Type: Bug
Components: PDModel.AcroForm
Affects Versions: 1.8.0
Environment: Mac OS X 10.8.3
Oracle Java 1.7.0_15-b03
PDFBox 1.8.0
Error happens with this form: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26964/co_absentee.en.pdf
Reporter: Wes Morgan
I have a PDF form (a Colorado absentee ballot application form;
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26964/co_absentee.en.pdf) 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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