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Tilman Hausherr edited comment on PDFBOX-4100 at 2/6/18 9:38 PM: ----------------------------------------------------------------- This isn't supported... the first glyph, "ரொ" is [\u0BB0\u0BCA|https://chars.suikawiki.org/string?s=%5Cu0BB0%5Cu0BCA] . PDFBox (or java) takes each 16 bit value separately. You'd need to find a way to pass every single glyph, as in the PDF attached. I don't know if this is possible, PDFBox does not support "complex scripts". It is unclear if Tamil is this. (This is not a rendering problem, it is a PDF creation problem) was (Author: tilman): This isn't supported... the first glyph, "ரொ" is [\u0BB0\u0BCA|https://chars.suikawiki.org/string?s=%5Cu0BB0%5Cu0BCA] . PDFBox (or java) takes each 16 bit value separately. You'd need to find a way to pass every single glyph, as in the PDF attached. I don't know if this is possible, PDFBox does not support "complex scripts". It is unclear if Tamil is this. > PDFBox not displaying Tamil Characters properly using Arial Unicode Font > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: PDFBOX-4100 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-4100 > Project: PDFBox > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 2.0.8 > Environment: Windows 10 64 bit, java 8 > Reporter: Jai Narayanan > Priority: Major > Attachments: pdfboxTamilImg.jpg, tamil-good-by-CIB.pdf > > > I am loading Arial Unicode Font and trying to render some Tamil Language > text. It is not rendering in proper order > PDDocument document = new PDDocument(); > font = PDType0Font .load(document, > getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("fonts/Arial-Unicode-Regular.ttf")); > page = new PDPage(PDRectangle.A4); > document.addPage(page); > PDPageContentStream stream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page); > stream.beginText(); > stream.setFont(font, 12); > stream.newLineAtOffset(50, 700); > stream.showText("ரொக்கம்"); > stream.endText(); > > I have attached the image which shows how it is being rendered by PDFBox. I > treid with other fonts too but the same issue persists. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@pdfbox.apache.org