Characters with accents aren 't showing up using pdfstamper 2007-11-07 - By Nick Snels
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Hi,
does somebody know how to solve the problem explained in this thread.
I'm totally clueless and all help is very much appreciated. Thanks.
Kind regards,
Nick
On Nov 2, 2007 11:45 AM, Nick Snels <nick.snels@(protected)> wrote:
> 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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