pdftk does not support UTF-8 encoded source data with flatten option
Bug #663603 reported by
localhorst
This bug affects 5 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pdftk (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: pdftk
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:
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.
| description: | updated |
| summary: |
- pdftk does not support UTF-8 encoded source data with -flatten option + pdftk does not support UTF-8 encoded source data with flatten option |
Revision history for this message
| localhorst (mterber) wrote | #1 |
Revision history for this message
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in pdftk (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
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| Przemysław Zieliński (mrzielsko) wrote | #3 |
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