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| localhorst (mterber) wrote pdftk does not support UTF-8 encoded source data with -flatten option | #0 |
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Scenario on
Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS
pdftk 1.41-3
* A PDF template with formfields: template.pdf
* A XFDF file that contains the data to be filled in: fieldData.xfdf
Now I need to have these to files flattened. pdftk does the job easily within php:
pdftk template.pdf fill_form fieldData.xfdf output flatFile.pdf flatten
Unfortunately this does not work with full utf-8 support. For example: Cyrillic and greek letters get scrambled and replaced by squared placeholders. I used Arial for this, with an unicode character set. Alternatively Bitsream Sans.
I installed libicu4j-java for full unicode support, but it didn't help.