Hi,
> at the moment I'm trying to build a new pdf file with pdfbox (Vers.
> 1.2.1 / JVM 1.6.0) from the scratch. Unfortunatly, I'm getting errors
> when trying to embed fonts: The generated document does not look correct
> under "Apple Preview", when opening with "Acrobat" an error ("value for
> /Widths is wrong") is shown, but the look of the file is as expected [1].
>
> I tried with several TTFs - all time the same error. I think the fonts
> are ok and it must be a mistake by my own.
> Can anyone please point me an example where to see how multiple TTFs are
> used correctly?
I'm using PDFBox in a similar way and it works fine for me. But I'm still
using version 1.1.0, so that it might be a regression with one of the newer
versions.
Probably this issues is related to [1].
BR
Andreas Lehmkühler
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-696
>
> Here is the code I'm using:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> PDDocument document = new PDDocument();
> PDPage page = new PDPage(PDPage.PAGE_SIZE_A4);
> document.addPage( page );
>
> PDTrueTypeFont fontBold = PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF(document,
> "DroidSans-Bold.ttf");
> PDTrueTypeFont fontRegular = PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF(document,
> "DroidSans.ttf");
>
> PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document,
> page);
> contentStream.drawLine(18, 747, 580, 747);
>
> contentStream.setFont(fontRegular, 14);
> contentStream.beginText();
> contentStream.setTextTranslation(20, 750);
> contentStream.drawString("Ihr Vorteil durch");
>
> contentStream.setFont(fontBold, 12);
> contentStream.setTextTranslation(20, 725);
> contentStream.drawString("Pers\u00F6nliche Berechnung f\u00FCr:");
>
> contentStream.setTextTranslation(20, 710);
> contentStream.drawString("Bernd Mustermann");
>
> contentStream.endText();
> contentStream.close();
>
> document.save(file);
> document.close();
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Thanks for all your help,
> Greetings,
> Erik
>
>
> [1] http://blog.elitecoderz.net/wp-content/uploads/screen.png
>
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