Minimal example for creating an IllegalArgumentException because symbol is not available in font

PDFBoxFontEncoding.java

package easytaaable;

import static org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1Font.SYMBOL;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPageContentStream;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.common.PDRectangle;

public class PDFBoxFontEncoding {

	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

		try (final PDDocument document = new PDDocument()) {
			PDPage page = new PDPage(PDRectangle.A4);
			document.addPage(page);

			try (PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page)) {
				contentStream.beginText();
				contentStream.setFont( SYMBOL, 12 );
				contentStream.newLineAtOffset( 100, 700 );
				contentStream.showText( "S" );
				contentStream.endText();
			}

			document.save("fontIssue.pdf");
		}
	}

}