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Small table drawing library built upon Apache PDFBox
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[Bug / Update] Cannot make PDF with certain characters #147

Closed Adriansun closed 1 year ago

Adriansun commented 2 years ago

Hello again,

I was wondering if the issue has been resolved with some characters not found / crash? Will Apache PDFBOX 3.0 solve this issue? Is there any font to use for this not to happen? I really like easytable. Good work. All I need is for this issue to be resolved.

Reference https://github.com/vandeseer/easytable/issues/130 https://github.com/vandeseer/easytable/issues/38 https://gist.github.com/vandeseer/46271f3e103e336b609edca4234dd4af https://pdfbox.apache.org/

Adriansun commented 1 year ago

Maybe you are on vacation? Would like to have a reply, please.

vandeseer commented 1 year ago

Hey @Adriansun,

I'm not on vacation. This library has entirely been built in my spare time without being paid. It's a courtesy of mine to open the source code and let everyone use it for free. Not quite sure if we were on the same page here.

As I said already at the other issues this is not a problem of easytable but a problem of pdfbox. And actually I think it's not even a problem of pdfbox directly but of the fonts used. I'm not quite sure, but I think you just need to find a proper font. Please just ask e.g. at stackoverflow.com or at another public Q&A forum. This has nothing to do with easytable per se.

Best, Stefan

vandeseer commented 1 year ago

Maybe have a look e.g. here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57450039/printing-chinese-characters-in-pdfbox

Could be a good starting point.

c4da commented 1 year ago

Hey @Adriansun,

I'm not on vacation. This library has entirely been built in my spare time without being paid. It's a courtesy of mine to open the source code and let everyone use it for free. Not quite sure if we were on the same page here.

As I said already at the other issues this is not a problem of easytable but a problem of pdfbox. And actually I think it's not even a problem of pdfbox directly but of the fonts used. I'm not quite sure, but I think you just need to find a proper font. Please just ask e.g. at stackoverflow.com or at another public Q&A forum. This has nothing to do with easytable per se.

Best, Stefan

Hi, Im pretty sure its NOT a problem of both pdfbox and easy table. @Adriansun needs to compose his own ttf file or find one that has all the chars.

Adriansun commented 1 year ago

I agree with you. It seem to be a font issue. There are several problems with the fonts. Let us start from the start.

Information / Request: I want to let Japanese, Russians, Thai... create a PDF.

Question 1: What font has UTF-8/everything and is free?*

Question 2: If there is no UTF-8 font to use then can there be an option which enables a try-catch to catch all odd letters and just show an "X" on that character position?

Looking forward to your answer.