Iain, If you send in the patches they'll be used. I've seen quite a few performance enhancement patches which will be release in version 1.0.0, which is being wrapped up now and should be released shortly. There's about a half dozen items where the patches need to be applied and tested and I believe the only thing left to do is switch from ant to maven. I'm not the one who's personally doing this and I don't have an official ETA, but I'd say it'll likely be ready in the next two weeks (give or take).
Feel free to hop on the developer list and let them know that you'd like to help improve font handling and they can point you to the classes you'll want to update. That will probably save you some time and it'll make sure everyone is on the same page in terms of how the changes will be implemented. --Adam From: Iain Clapham <iain.clap...@googlemail.com> To: users@pdfbox.apache.org Cc: Villu Ruusmann <villu.ruusm...@gmail.com> Date: 02/04/2010 15:37 Subject: Re: Question mark in the extracted text I get this a lot with "obscure" fonts - I would love to improve the font handling but worry that the project is not well controlled and any effort in this direction would be wasted. Who is producing 1.0.0 and WHEN ??????????? iaincc Villu Ruusmann wrote: > Hello there, > > >> I'm using the text extraction of the Apache PDFBox 0.8.0 library. >> Unfortunately, the text extraction is replacing some signs and letters by >> '?'. >> >> > Without having seen the PDF file, I guess that the problem is that the > "faulty" characters depend on a font which is not properly supported > by PDFBox 0.8.0 (the translation rules from bytes to character codes > could be embedded into the font program; PDFBox does not know yet how > to parse/interpret all types of font programs, so it bails out with a > "?" instead). > > Hopefully the upcoming PDFBox 1.0.0 release is a bit more savvy in this regard. > > > VR > > ? Click here to submit conditions This email and any content within or attached hereto from Sun West Mortgage Company, Inc. is confidential and/or legally privileged. The information is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named on this email. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this email information is strictly prohibited, and that the documents should be returned to this office immediately by email. Receipt by anyone other than the intended recipient is not a waiver of any privilege. Please do not include your social security number, account number, or any other personal or financial information in the content of the email. Should you have any questions, please call (800) 453 7884.
