The new-line character is "\n", not "/n"... And maybe it will work with "\r", instead.
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > Am 11.08.2016 um 14:56 schrieb Yoav Tsoref <[email protected]>: > > > > 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) > > could you upload a sample form to a public location? > > BR > Maruan > > > > > > > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
