PDF Fonts does not load in 5.3.9.160

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The application is running on lucee 5.3.9.160 and Installed pdf extension 1.1.0.16-SPANSHOT. When I download a document from the Application in a pdf version the document does not include special characters.

PDF extension even does not install the fonts jar files. if I copied the fonts jar file to “/opt/lucee/web/fonts/” location special character is working.

Does there any issue with lucee version 5.3.9.160 or the pdf extension?

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Hi @Ismail_Hossain, can you please elaborate on which special characters are not working in pdf? (example code would be more helpful)

If you have a custom fonts jar file, you have to make the lucee to pick up the font jar file by placing your font jar files in the lucee_installation_folder\tomcat\lib\ folder and restart the lucee server. So lucee will extract the jar files to the WEB-INF/lucee/fonts folder.
https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-1562?focusedCommentId=40539

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Thanks for your prompt response.

I don’t use the custom fonts jar file.

When the pdf extension did not install the fonts jar file in “/opt/lucee/web/fonts/” location so I did download the pdf extension and extracted the fonts jar file and copied to “/opt/lucee/web/fonts/” location and it is now workin.

the code example is:

<cfdocument
    format="PDF"
    fontembed="yes"
    unit="In"
    pagetype="A4"
    scale="75"
    filename="testfile"
    overwrite="Yes"
    bookmark="true"
    orientation="portrait">
    <cfoutput>
        <html>
            <head>
                <title>test title page</title>
                <style type="text/css">
                    body {
                        font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
                    }
                </style>
            </head>
            <body>
                Some special characters Ā and ū and Ā and ū
                <br>
                £ -- €
            </body>
        </html>
    </cfoutput>
</cfdocument>

<cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="inline;filename=""testfile.pdf""">
<cfcontent type="application/pdf" file="testfile" deletefile="yes">

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