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Reputation: 557

PDFBox IllegalArgumentException: No glyph in font Webdings

I'm trying to write to a PDF in Webdings font using PDFBox. What I'd like to appear is the symbol that is represented by character A in Webdings. However, I get an IllegalArgumentException saying that there's no glyph in my Font for the given character. Am I missing something around encoding or is Webdings simply not supported?

I use PDFBox 2.0.17, many solutions to similar problems seem outdated. I can verify Webdings in the Character Map tool and it works in programs such as word. The actual problem I have is not with Webdings but another non-public font and I don't have any alternatives to that one. Using Webdings as the problem pattern seems to be the same.

PDFont font = PDFontType0Font.load(doc, new File("pathToWebdings.ttf"));
PDPageContentStream cos = new PDPageContentStream(doc, page, AppendMode.APPEND, true);
PDStreamUtils.write(cos,"a", font, 100, 100, 100, Color.BLACK);
cos.close();

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No glyph for U+0061 (a) in font Webdings

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3230

Answers (1)

Tilman Hausherr
Tilman Hausherr

Reputation: 18851

I looked at it with DTL OTMaster 3.7 light (this is free and very useful), the checkmark will work with \uf061 with the webdings font (tested in Windows 10).

enter image description here (screenshot looks a bit weird because I have a 4K monitor)

Alternatively, use PDType1Font.ZAPF_DINGBATS and then \u2714 will also work.

Upvotes: 1

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