Hi there,
hopefully you can help me with the following usecase: I have a third party pdf
file containing a form. My task is to populate the form's fields with content.
This works fine except for special characters like the german umlauts or the
EURO-character. I stumbled upon posts suggesting to use a custom TrueTypeFont
for inserting values, but alas I did not find a way to do this. Could someone
please reply with an idea how to do this?
Below you will find the code snippet I am using:
<pre>
PDDocument document = null;
try {
document = PDDocument.load(template);
} catch (IOException e) {
throw new RuntimeException("...");
}
PDAcroForm acroForm = document.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm();
List<PDField> fields = acroForm.getFields();
for (PDField field : fields) {
((PDTextbox) field).setValue(string); // <- "string" is an UTF-8 encoded
String like "äöü߀"
}
</pre>
Best regards,
Stephan
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