Hi Juho This isn’t supported in 1.8 but the 2.0 trunk version supports embedding TTF fonts using Unicode. Follow the instruction on our website for build from source or downloading a snapshot.
Once you have 2.0, follow this example: https://github.com/apache/pdfbox/blob/trunk/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/EmbeddedFonts.java -- John > On 9 Jan 2015, at 00:35, Juho Terrijärvi <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hey all, > > I'm using pdfbox 1.8.8 and trying to write unicode or UTF-8 with Cyrillic > alphabets. The bookmarks work correct: > > PDOutlineItem subHeading = new PDOutlineItem(); > subHeading.setTitle(allDocsToAddExp[i]); > page = (PDPage)pages.get( num ); > dest = new PDPageFitWidthDestination(); > subHeading.setDestination( dest ); > dest.setPage( page ); > heading.appendChild( subHeading ); > > But when I write to the document with: > > // append the content to the existing stream > PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(doc, page, true, > true, true); > contentStream.beginText(); > // set font and font size > contentStream.setFont( PDType1Font.TIMES_ROMAN, 10f ); > // set text color > contentStream.setNonStrokingColor(0, 0, 0); > if (rotate) > { > // rotate the text according to the page rotation > contentStream.setTextRotation(Math.PI/2, x, y); > } > else > { > contentStream.setTextTranslation(x, y); > } > contentStream.drawString(message); > contentStream.endText(); > contentStream.close(); > > This only produces þÿ > ________________________________ > @ > ________________________________ > 0 > ________________________________ > 1 > ________________________________ >> > ________________________________ > B > ________________________________ > 0 > > What could be the problem? > > Best, > > Juho > > Ps. I find your work amazing! With pdfbox I can do the months work I did > before in a day. So pdfbox has made it possible for me to spend 19 days in a > month in more rational things.
