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maknoll/PdfboxUmlauts.java

Created August 15, 2011 22:38
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Fixes widths of german umlauts when loading ttf fonts with PdfBox
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PdfboxUmlauts.java
PDFont font = PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF(document, "putr8a.ttf"); // example font (Utopia)
List<Float> widths = font.getWidths();
for (int i = 1; i <= 22; i++)
widths.add(250f); // add 22 floats to cover all 255 ascii chars
widths.set(246, widths.get(111)); // copy width of o to ö
widths.set(252, widths.get(117)); // u to ü
font.setWidths(widths);
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