使用PDFBox输出欧元符号

Question

I have encountered the same problem as described here , ie to output € sign in my generated pdf document. The euro sign should be appended after the data retrieved from database, in this case the solution provided is not very useful, I tried with this lines, so that I can use the variable euroToPDF anywhere I want:

Encoding e = EncodingManager.INSTANCE.getEncoding(COSName.WIN_ANSI_ENCODING);

String euroToPDF = String.valueOf(Character.toChars(e.getCode(e.getCharacter(128))));

but the application throws IOException, saying No character code for character name '€' , anyone knows how to solve this?

Answer 1

If you are using v2 of PDFBox, you should use the € symbol in the string you output, without trying to convert the encoding.

In v1.8 you can use a trick:

contentStream.beginText();
contentStream.setTextMatrix(100, 0, 0, 100, 50, 100);
contentStream.setFont(PDType1Font.HELVETICA, 8);
byte[] commands = "(x) Tj ".getBytes();
commands[1] = (byte) 128;
contentStream.appendRawCommands(commands);
contentStream.endText();
contentStream.close();