PDFBox "special" characters in Helvetica

Question

I am using PDFBox 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT to create a PDF file in Java. It works great for very simple characters (e.g. [a-zA-Z9-0]), but I get coding errors for more advanced characters like ’( quoteright). Here is my code:

PDDocument pdf = new PDDocument();
PDPage page = new PDPage(PDRectangle.A4);
pdf.addPage(page);

PDPageContentStream contents = new PDPageContentStream(pdf, page);
PDFont font = PDType1Font.HELVETICA;
contents.beginText();
contents.setFont(font, 12);

// ...

String text = "’";
contents.showText(text);

contents.endText();
contents.close();

I get this exception:

Unable to encode U + 2019 in Helvetica font. Type 1 fonts only support 8-bit code points

I looked at the supported characters for non-embedded fonts in Section D.1 of the PDF Specification , and this character must be supported.

In fact, if I use this trick , I can insert the correct character:

// ...

// String text = "’";
// contents.showText(text);
byte[] commands = "(x) Tj ".getBytes();
commands[1] = (byte)145;    // = 221 octal = quoteright in WinAnsi
contents.appendRawCommands(commands);

// ...

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Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can't encode U+2019 in font Helvetica. Type 1 fonts only support 8-bit code points
    at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1Font.encode(PDType1Font.java:343)
    at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont.encode(PDFont.java:285)
    at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont.getStringWidth(PDFont.java:314)
    at com.fatfractal.test.PDFBoxTest.textWidth(PDFBoxTest.java:148)
    at com.fatfractal.test.PDFBoxTest.showFlowingTextAt(PDFBoxTest.java:128)
    at com.fatfractal.test.PDFBoxTest.build(PDFBoxTest.java:73)
    at com.fatfractal.test.PDFBoxTest.main(PDFBoxTest.java:97)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
    at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:144)

Answer 1

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Answer 2

@jtahlborn , 2.0.0 PDType1Font.encode().

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InputStream fontStream = new FileInputStream("c:/Windows/Fonts/ARIALUNI.TTF");
PDType0Font font = PDType0Font.load(pdf, fontStream);

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