Re: Choosing a font for non-ASCII characters

[Tilman Hausherr]

Am 19.03.2019 um 19:45 schrieb Christopher Schultz:
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Tilman,

So I'm starting to look toward making my code better now that it's
actually working. Right now, my code looks like this:

         if(!isAnsiEncoding(strippedText)) {
             font = getFullUnicodeFont();
         }

Where one font simply replaces the other for strings that aren't
available the the built-in font(s).

I'd like to support emoji and stuff like that. I can find a font (or
fonts) for that, but I think the only way I can do that with the
existing API is something like this:

Font[] fonts = new Font[] { builtIn, arialUnicode, emoji };

for(Font font : fonts) {
     try {
       page.setFont(font);
        page.showText(text);
     } catch (IllegalArgumentException iae) {
         // Try the next font
     }
}

That will "work" but it will not work if, for example, I need to print
text that includes both Chinese characters (from arialUnicode font)
and also emoji (from the hypothetical "emoji" font).

If there any way to tell PDFBox to "pick the right font (from some
list) for each character"?


No, that is why I created the EmbeddedMultipleFonts.java example which I 
mentioned earlier in the thread. That one can switch within strings.

Tilman




- -chris
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