Hi,
I am using PDFBox version 2.0.1 to dynamically update the fields of an
existing PDF document. When I'm trying to fill one of the fields with a
String that contains New Line character the following exception is thrown:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: U+000D ('controlCR') is not available
in this font's encoding: StandardEncoding with differences
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1Font.encode(PDType1Font.java:345)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont.encode(PDFont.java:286)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont.getStringWidth(PDFont.java:315)
at
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PlainText$Paragraph.getLines(PlainText.java:169)
at
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PlainTextFormatter.format(PlainTextFormatter.java:182)
at
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper.insertGeneratedAppearance(AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java:373)
at
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper.setAppearanceContent(AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java:237)
at
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper.setAppearanceValue(AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java:144)
at
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDTextField.constructAppearances(PDTextField.java:263)
at
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDTerminalField.applyChange(PDTerminalField.java:225)
at
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDTextField.setValue(PDTextField.java:218)
at
com.myadwise.db.dao.FinancialTransactionMgr.createInvoice(FinancialTransactionMgr.java:525)
The API call that I'm using to insert the string into the field is:
PDDocument pdfDocument = PDDocument.load(<PATH_TO_TEMPLATE_PDF_FILE); //PDF
file was created as a template using Adobe DC
PDAcroForm acroForm = pdfDocument.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm();
acroForm.getField("invoice.to.address").setValue(billingAddress)
The last line is the one that throws the exception if the billingAddress
String contains a '/n' or a New Line (or Carriage Return) character.
I have searched for similar issues but couldn't find many references.
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Yoav
