Apparently, my webmail didn't send the attachments, so I uploaded them elsewhere.. The png: http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/8867/outu.png The pdf: http://tiny.cc/yKZWu
-------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:07:57 +0100 > Von: "Robert Main" <[email protected]> > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Wrong symbols printed > Hello. I want to extract text from pages and when I try to write it into a > new PDF, some characters are mixed up. > I extract the text using the TextPosition objects that contain the actual > text strings, font, position etc. > > This is the important code that I use to write the text into the page: > contentStream is a PDPageContentStream, te is a TextPosition, > page is a PDPage > > > contentStream.setFont(te.getFont(), te.getFontSizeInPt()); > contentStream.setTextMatrix(1, 0, 0, 1, > te.getXDirAdj(), > page.getArtBox().getHeight()-te.getYDirAdj()); > contentStream.drawString(te.getCharacter()); > > It works for normal text, however there are problems with mathematical > terms, see the attachment please. > The out.png has the converted page using pdftoimage; everything went fine > except that the sigma sign is missing. myresult.pdf on the other hand has > lots of font problems: nearly every special character is the root sign and > if it isn't the root sign, it's some other mixed character. > If you want to take a look at the original pdf, it's > http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/math.pdf page 16. > -- > Sicherer, schneller und einfacher. Die aktuellen Internet-Browser - > jetzt kostenlos herunterladen! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/atbrowser -- GMX DSL: Internet, Telefon und Entertainment für nur 19,99 EUR/mtl.! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl02
