 | Mailing List | | Home | | Forum Home | | JBoss - Java Application Server | | Tomcat - JSP/Servlet container | | Struts - A MVC web framework | | iText - An open source PDF Java Library | | JDOM - JDOM XML Parser | | J2EE - A mailing list for Java(tm) 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition | | J2EE Pattern - An interest list for Sun Java Center J2EE Pattern Catalog | | JSP - A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and reference | | Servlet - A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java Servlet API Technology | |
Struts & Hibernate
|
|
|
| | | 2 czech Characters getting lost when parsingthrough IText | 2 czech Characters getting lost when parsingthrough IText 2006-07-22 - By Paulo Soares
Back
-- -- Original Message -- --
From: "Bela Sharma" <belaSharma@(protected)>
To: <itext-questions@(protected)>
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 10:47 AM
Subject: [iText-questions] 2 czech Characters getting lost when
parsingthrough IText
> Hi
> I get a strange issue with 2 of the czech characters when generating PDF
> using IText version 1.4.2.
> When customerNumber=Pr??erne ?lutouck? is sent as as input to IText after
> doing following steps
> // Step 1: creation of a document-object
> document = new Document(PageSize.A4);
>
> // step 2: create a writer that listens to the document
> writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, baos);
> // step 3: we create a parser and set the document handler
> parser =
> SAXParserFactory.newInstance().newSAXParser();
> InputSource isrc = new InputSource(bais);
> isrc.setEncoding(getEncodingType());
> CustomTagHandler cth= new
> CustomTagHandler(document, writer, getCustomMap(),"ISO-8859 (See http://ISO-8859.ora-code.com)-2");
>
> // step 4: we parse the document
> parser.parse(isrc,cth);
> System.out.println(" in GenericContracttoPdfconv.
> parser:"+parser.toString());
> // step 5: close the document object
> document.close();
>
> The 2 characters ? and ? are lost and we get boxes in their place.
>
> Here's the constructor for CustomTagHandler
>
> public CustomTagHandler(DocListener _doclistener, PdfWriter
> _writer,HashMap hashmap,String encoding_loc)throws DocumentException,
> IOException
> {
> super(_doclistener);
>
> setStrMethodName("CustomTagHandler"); /* NOI18N */
> fillLocaleFont();
>
> if (encoding_loc.indexOf("-locale-") != -1){
> position = encoding_loc.indexOf("-locale-");
> System.out.println("CTH sit_loc:"+encoding_loc+"
> pos:"+position);
> encoding = encoding_loc.substring(0, position);
> locale = encoding_loc.substring(position+8);
> System.out.println("CTH enc:"+encoding+" locale:"
> +locale);
> }else{
> encoding = encoding_loc;
> System.out.println("CTH enco:"+encoding);
> }
>
>
> filename=getFontFile(locale);
> setBaseFont(BaseFont.createFont(filename,
> encoding,BaseFont.EMBEDDED));
> setMyTags(hashmap);
> setWriter(_writer);
> setDoclistener(_doclistener);
> setCb(_writer.getDirectContent());
> stackThis = new java.util.Stack  ();
> isStackReadyForText = false;
> leftText = null;
> centerText = null;
> rightText = null;
>
>
> }
>
> Can you please guide us as to what should we do for those 2 missing
> characters.
Use a font and encoding that covers the two characters.
Paulo
-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -----
Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT
Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your
opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash
http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV
__ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
iText-questions mailing list
iText-questions@(protected)
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
|
|
|
