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John Hewson commented on PDFBOX-2714:
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So I figured out what the problem was. There are hinting instructions in
arialbd.ttf which use the cvt and fpgm tables, however in our subset font the
cvt table is missing. This is due to a typo in TrueTypeEmbedder, where "cvt"
should have been four characters: "cvt ", with a trailing space.
Acrobat and other viewers ignore the invalid hints but PDFium renders the
glyphs as blank - that's still worth reporting to them as a bug, though
technically it was our fault.
> Type1Fonts working on one computer, not another
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> Key: PDFBOX-2714
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2714
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: FontBox
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0
> Environment: Win7 works, WinServer2012 doesn't
> Reporter: Daniel Brownell
> Assignee: John Hewson
> Attachments: PDFA.pdf, Simple.pdf, arialbd.ttf, helloworld.pdf
>
>
> Asked on SO, Tilman suggests I open a JIRA:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29111310/pdfbox-2-0-0-type1fonts-working-on-one-computer-not-another
> I am trying to work out why I'm getting a bunch of
> `java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No glyph for U+0057 in font
> Helvetica-Bold` errors on a Windows 2012 Server dev environment, but not on
> my local Windows 7 environment.
> I built the trunk from scratch, with: `mvn -DskipTests=true install`
> on my machine (Win 7), collected the jars and made a very rudimentary test
> package, by dumping all the jars into a subfolder libs/ and copying the
> `org/apache/pdfbox/examples `class files to the same directory, to see if the
> HelloWorld program works.
> The [HelloWorld program][1] creates a file, called test.pdf with the message
> "WHY" as requested, but when I run it on a new machine, I get the following:
>
>
> C:\EAP-6.3.0\PDFBOXTESTING>java -cp ".;libs/*"
> org.apache.pdfbox.examples.pdmodel.HelloWorld test.pdf WHY
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No
> glyph for U+0057 in font Helvetica-Bold
> at
> org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1Font.encode(PDType1Font.java:303)
> at
> org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont.encode(PDFont.java:268)
> at
> org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPageContentStream.showText(PDPageContentStream.java:316)
> at
> org.apache.pdfbox.examples.pdmodel.HelloWorld.main(HelloWorld.java:59)
> I installed Adobe Reader XI on that computer, in case it needed the fonts
> from Adobe, installed on the system, or who knows.
> It's not finding `U+0057`, which is a W, and in my testing, it wasn't finding
> a bunch of stuff. It basically didn't find anything. so something is
> fundamentally wrong, maybe the operating system has provided a bad font?
> [1]:
> https://github.com/apache/pdfbox/blob/trunk/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/HelloWorld.java
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