Using Java PDFBox to write Hebrew into PDF

Question

I'm using PDFBox to write text to PDF.
When I write English it works perfectly fine, but when I try to write Hebrew I get gibberish.

I've tried all kind of solutions but nothing seems to work. I tried everything that was described in the following threads: First, Second, Third.

All the above solutions use iText. I need to somehow manage it with PDFBox.

I did see that the use of DictionaryEncoding could work, though I don't understand it. I tried to use it but it doesn't work for Hebrew (Wrote all Hebrew letters from 1488 to 1514).

COSDictionary cosDic = new COSDictionary();

cosDic.setString( COSName.getPDFName("alef"), "1488" ); // First Hebrew letter
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cosDic.setString( COSName.getPDFName("tav"), "1514" ); // Last Hebrew letter

font.setEncoding( new DictionaryEncoding( cosDic ) );

Any kind of help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

The solution for me was switching to iText.
All the hard work regarding encoding Unicode letters and RTL support in the PDF was implemented by them.
I suppose that if something is too difficult with one library there is probably another library that can do it better.