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Aaron Eischeid commented on PDFBOX-3165: ---------------------------------------- is there a specific way maybe to use a font file that has more characters in it? What we are doing is using Libre Office to work on the doc and export to PDF. I have noticed is that if we do this on a Ubuntu machine then after PdfBox handles the PDF some windows users will see black circles instead of letters. That problem goes away if we do the export from a windows machine. The error we encountered with the missing tab char was on a PDF that had been generated on a windows machine. So the question is is there a way to tell Libre Office or whatever PDF generating thing to use/declare/embed a font that has a broader set of characters? Or should I use a different font setting in the form elements? Arial as a font choice feels pretty safe really. If that one doesn't work it is hard to imagine what would do better. > 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 > Attachments: Sample_Template.pdf > > > 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) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@pdfbox.apache.org