UTF-8 encoded fonts

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:49:12 -0800 

Hi all,
I am trying to find out a way to write Cyrillic characters to a PDF document, is this supported by pdfbox? 


My last test was to download a font (the gentium font from 
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=Gentium, which is 
UTF-8 encoded) and try to load it, but I get the following exception:


Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Invalid Characters codes

    at 
org.apache.fontbox.ttf.CMAPEncodingEntry.processSubtype12(CMAPEncodingEntry.java:218)
    at 
org.apache.fontbox.ttf.CMAPEncodingEntry.initSubtable(CMAPEncodingEntry.java:97)

    at org.apache.fontbox.ttf.CMAPTable.initData(CMAPTable.java:90)

    at 
org.apache.fontbox.ttf.AbstractTTFParser.parseTables(AbstractTTFParser.java:163)

    at org.apache.fontbox.ttf.TTFParser.parseTables(TTFParser.java:61)

    at 
org.apache.fontbox.ttf.AbstractTTFParser.parseTTF(AbstractTTFParser.java:90)

    at org.apache.fontbox.ttf.TTFParser.parseTTF(TTFParser.java:26)

    at 
org.apache.fontbox.ttf.AbstractTTFParser.parseTTF(AbstractTTFParser.java:66)

    at org.apache.fontbox.ttf.TTFParser.parseTTF(TTFParser.java:26)

    at 
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDTrueTypeFont.loadDescriptorDictionary(PDTrueTypeFont.java:204)
    at 
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF(PDTrueTypeFont.java:164)
    at 
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF(PDTrueTypeFont.java:140)
    at 
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF(PDTrueTypeFont.java:127)


This is the code:

[...]

         String fontfile = 
"C:/jms/tmp/ttf/GentiumPlus-1.508/GentiumPlus-R.ttf";

         doc = new PDDocument();
         PDPage page = new PDPage();
         doc.addPage(page);
         PDFont font = PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF(doc, fontfile);
[...]

Is there a way to write Cyrillic characters using PDF Box?

Thanks in advance,

Jose M. Sánchez














    











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