Google's Noto fonts support a huge number of Unicode characters: https://www.google.com/get/noto/
You would need to install the ones you need. I believe you will also need to figure out which fonts to use for which characters on your own -- possibly by knowing the language/script you are targeting. On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 5:56 PM Christopher Schultz < ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hello, > > We are using PDFBox to generate PDFs in a very simple way and only > including fonts available from the PDType1Font class (e.g. > PDType1Font.HELVETICA). The PDFs we are generating are really only > including a few title/subtitles, text, and bulleted/numbered lists. > > Everything is fine when we use what is probably in the standard Latin > alphabet, and we've had some troubles with special characters that > don't fit in there such as ≥ and ≤. We've dealt with that by simply > replacing "≤" with "<=" and so on, but we're starting to use languages > that don't use Latin script and so we can no longer replace out way > out of the problem. > > For example, I need to be able to put Chinese characters into a PDF we > generate. So let's take the text "中國" which is just the word "China" > in Traditional Chinese script. > > First, how can I find out that the character isn't going to fit into > the font that I'm currently using? Should I do it for every character > we try to put into the page, or should we just catch exceptions when > we try to write the text to the page and then scan at that point? I'm > trying to avoid writing hideously inefficient code to handle these > situations. > > Second, once I know that I need to choose another font... how do I > know which font to choose? Should I keep a mapping of Unicode code > point ranges and the best fonts to use for them? > > Finally, what fonts are actually available to PDFBox? How do I add new > ones? I have a lot of control over the environment and I get to see > failing conversions and intervene, so some trial and error is okay for > each new situation. > > The recipients of our PDFs are file-size sensitive, so I'd only want > to include (bundle) a font in a PDF if it was absolutely necessary to > include the font itself. If we can get away with including a > *reference* to the font in the PDF and telling these recipients > "sorry, if you want to read the Chinese PDFs we send, you'd better > make sure you have font X installed" then that's okay with me, too. > > What suggestions to people have for doing all of the above? > > Thanks, > - -chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - https://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEMmKgYcQvxMe7tcJcHPApP6U8pFgFAlxSVeMACgkQHPApP6U8 > pFgQew/8CS1YmJs27QrD+WGV/Zcn2RAeG/ZVs5w3huMwKLY8NfXQ4Vdp3o+s+B7u > 2wn9m2LJVXuWT2dfDDQzZDIfBgfqZI5sl4+hBDSos9gEVV3ddWcox1A0YSTCy5VW > DAlDZSscEdIDyMIVz2E1dQi6/p35MrSyJ/Xom6Tbnvt3ZHAp87GHZ1rB8XXrtVZS > itVE756hJ59o4tZJoM9cH1NH1w9PuLLJyrGpCsc1oTgcZTI0jXxiIC9Q4GvLbLbO > yVdExITzTVflLAo0BRGOJkb5IF1OyVf51HHas1+DMEvtSXY5J89e1dFnyo1dFxMU > MXJ5rKh/FQvJtC5Lf9QoQ3tV8r3qyWv0wc8FVgMcLUA9DHbx7QtcydQwoKf3poJz > ymlOJWH2b4d5uLbSfdjr9Nof4IRNH504cwjoth3eor3Ra/SCaem2ZrTQhY6XzoF1 > vCpZChDIKzDvI7NDGbcaNvzzezNmlbdRdh3Ekwk1E/vwfrmtb4VmW7sW9PICP1o6 > 80sqydy6qIMtQNjr1EK55VIvD4+e10SwYWhcZinsByQkYZpoRjKWQ9kTNk10vvwk > cLB8bVeLPHC7nLe4FqJe4y3+hWBfGP25O2VdnNU1sjd4lbzQhNIgCMj0n+6ziDuU > Nh9vDuKRXEIIXHZUxrN2Td3hOw96wKHqEQ8RtxYpuGWABx4wIWw= > =aMPi > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org > >
