Subject: Re: Characters with accents aren 't showing up using pdfstamper 2007-11-02 - By Nick Snels
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Hi Bruno,
thanks for the reply. The characters show up when I type them in
manually in the PDF.
I'm not using Java to write to the pdf, but I'm using a Ruby Java
bridge to do that. My Ruby files are saved in an UTF-8 (See http://UTF-8.ora-code.com) encoding and
the data coming from the database is also UTF-8 (See http://UTF-8.ora-code.com). When I look at the
fonts embedded in the PDF, their encoding says ASCII. So probably the
problem lays there. But I don't know how to change the encoding of the
PDF? If that is what I have to change off course.
Hope this sheds some more light on the problem. Thanks.
Kind regards,
Nick
On Nov 2, 2007 10:57 AM, Bruno Lowagie <bruno@(protected)> wrote:
> Nick80 wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to change an existing pdf document using iText. I have added a
> > text field to the original pdf document and I can fill it with text. However
> > characters like ?, ?, ?, ?, ... aren't showing up. What do I need to change
> > in order for them to show up?
>
> Do they show up if you fill out the form in the PDF manually?
>
> If no:
> the font that is defined for the form field doesn't have
> those characters. Can you create the form field defining
> another font for the content?
>
> If yes:
> are you sure your JAVA code uses the right encoding?
> I've seen the same problem where special chars were
> hardcoded in a Java file saved in one encoding, but
> then compiled using a compiler that expected another encoding.
> The same can happen with databases: a field can be stored
> in one encoding, then read in the assumption that the String
> is encoded using another encoding.
>
> There might be other reasons, but these are the most
> obvious I can think of for the moment.
> br,
> Bruno
>
>
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