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Maruan Sahyoun commented on PDFBOX-3165:
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If you could provide a simple one that would be fine. 

> Tab characters in PDTextField cause error when using .flatten()
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-3165
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3165
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: AcroForm, FontBox
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.0
>         Environment: Ubuntu, JDK7
>            Reporter: Aaron Eischeid
>
> pdf form gets filled in, then call I call .flatten(fields, true) which last I 
> knew was undocumented, but anyway I needed the refreshAppearences for 
> pdfViewers that don't support acroForms like pdf.js
> If a tab character some how gets entered into the PDTextField it chokes. I am 
> worried other somewhat common characters might have similar issues, but 
> haven't experimented so far.
> Using RC2 of pdfBox and fontBox. and fonts in pdfForm elements were all set 
> to Arial.
> Relavent stacktrace:
> U+0009 is not available in this font's Encoding. Stacktrace follows:
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: U+0009 is not available in this font's 
> Encoding
>       at 
> org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDTrueTypeFont.encode(PDTrueTypeFont.java:358)
>       at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont.encode(PDFont.java:283)
>       at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont.getStringWidth(PDFont.java:312)
>       at 
> org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PlainTextFormatter.format(PlainTextFormatter.java:193)
>       at 
> org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper.insertGeneratedAppearance(AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java:373)
>       at 
> org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper.setAppearanceContent(AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java:237)
>       at 
> org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper.setAppearanceValue(AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java:144)
>       at 
> org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDTextField.constructAppearances(PDTextField.java:263)
>       at 
> org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDAcroForm.refreshAppearances(PDAcroForm.java:287)
>       at 
> org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDAcroForm.flatten(PDAcroForm.java:211)



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