string uCode = String.Format("\\u{0:x4}", cms.CharacterIndex);
and
string uCode = new String((char) cms.CharacterIndex, 1);
give entirely different results from:
template.ShowTextAligned(PdfContentByte.ALIGN_CENTER, uCode, width/2, 0, 0);
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paulo
Soares
Sent: Wednesday, 3 May 2006 9:28 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] TrueTypeFont displays wrong characters
In this case it's the same, the font really covers iso-8859-1.
Paulo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 11:41 PM
Subject: RE: [iText-questions] TrueTypeFont displays wrong characters
> Okay, I've got it: use the string from character index not the Unicode.
>
> D'oh!
>
> Thanks again Paulo
> AlanK
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paulo
> Soares
> Sent: Wednesday, 3 May 2006 7:57 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] TrueTypeFont displays wrong characters
>
> I don't see where's the problem. Some character will produce a glyph. Did
> you expect another glyph? And if so why?
>
> Paulo
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 10:14 PM
> Subject: RE: [iText-questions] TrueTypeFont displays wrong characters
>
>
>> Thank you for looking at this Paulo.
>>
>> I still can't see how to set the font's symbolic flag - I can't find a
>> method for "setting" a Font font in PdfContentByte. Is it sufficient to
>> just
>> create a Font from the BaseFont? Should I be using some other means of
>> adding the character to the template?
>>
>> Cheers
>> AlanK
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paulo
>> Soares
>> Sent: Wednesday, 3 May 2006 2:01 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: RE: [iText-questions] TrueTypeFont displays wrong characters
>>
>> Looks good to me although the font should be symbolic. This code:
>>
>> Document doc = new Document(PageSize.A4);
>> PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, new
>> FileStream("c:\\test456.pdf",FileMode.Create));
>> doc.Open();
>> BaseFont bf = BaseFont.CreateFont("c:\\esri_12.ttf",
>> BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, true);
>> Font ff = new Font(bf, 24);
>> PdfPTable t = new PdfPTable(16);
>> t.WidthPercentage = 100;
>> t.DefaultCell.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER;
>> for (int k = 0; k < 256; ++k) {
>> String s = new String((char)k, 1);
>> t.AddCell(new Phrase(s, ff));
>> }
>> doc.Add(t);
>> doc.Close();
>>
>> produces the attached pdf. There's one other char at \u2219 that is not
>> represented here.
>>
>> Paulo
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan
>>> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 11:24 PM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: RE: [iText-questions] TrueTypeFont displays wrong characters
>>>
>>> Thanks Paulo,
>>> I've been looking closer at the PDF spec and now realise where the six
>>> characters are coming from.
>>>
>>> My code is creating templates from individual characters and
>>> then painting
>>> the templates multiple times.
>>>
>>> The font code is below:
>>> PdfTemplate template = cb.CreateTemplate(100, 100);
>>> BaseFont bf = BaseFont.CreateFont(pathBuilder.ToString(),
>>> BaseFont.IDENTITY_H , BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
>>> string uCode = String.Format(@"\u{0:x4}", cms.CharacterIndex);
>>> float size = (float)fnt.Size;
>>> float width = bf.GetWidthPoint(uCode, size);
>>> template.BeginText();
>>> template.SetFontAndSize(bf,size);
>>> template.SetRGBColorFill(rgbColour.Red, rgbColour.Green,
>>> rgbColour.Blue);
>>> template.SetTextMatrix(0,0);
>>> template.ShowTextAligned(PdfContentByte.ALIGN_CENTER, uCode,
>>> 50, 50,0);
>>> template.EndText();
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> AlanK
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>>> Behalf Of Paulo
>>> Soares
>>> Sent: Tuesday, 2 May 2006 7:40 AM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] TrueTypeFont displays wrong characters
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Alan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> To: <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 10:33 AM
>>> Subject: [iText-questions] TrueTypeFont displays wrong characters
>>>
>>>
>>> >I am writing various symbol characters from a number of True
>>> Type Fonts as
>>> > templates to a PDF page.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > The code is finding the correct file and Unicode character
>>> but the wrong
>>> > character is being painted to the page - the characters
>>> being painted
>>> > don't
>>> > even appear in the font.
>>> >
>>> > The only clue I have is that the font names in the FONTS
>>> Dictionary have a
>>> > BaseFont Name "TNGJDP+ESRINIMADNCPT" while the font
>>> identifies itself as
>>> > "ESRI NIMA DNC PT".
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Does anyone have any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
>>> >
>>>
>>> You'd be amazed at the number of TT fonts, even from
>>> reputable sources, that
>>>
>>> have broken cmaps. You'll have to post the font and the way
>>> you are using it
>>>
>>> so that another hack can be put in iText.
>>>
>>> Paulo
>>>
>>>
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>>
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