This is a known issue with 1.8 which has been fixed in the 2.0 trunk. There isn't an official release but you can use a development snapshot.
-- John > On 6 Jan 2015, at 14:19, [email protected] wrote: > > Hello, > > i am trying to print a "€" char using pdfbox. The char will end up in "þÿ > ¬". > i tryed to use PDType1Font.HELVETICA and loading Open Sans using > "PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF(document, "Open_Sans/OpenSans-Regular.ttf"); > > i googled and found a lot of hacks around this issue, but i need to calculate > the > width of the text later on. > > is there a useable unicode / utf-8 support in pdfbox? > > thanks, > Tim
