Failing to save document as PDF

Aspose.Words Product Family
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I’m currently evaluation the latest Aspose.Words java library using a ruby interface (using rjb).

My code is really simple:

doc = Rjb::import("com.aspose.words.Document").new 
builder = Rjb::import("com.aspose.words.DocumentBuilder").new 
builder.setDocument(doc)
builder.write("Hello world!")
doc.save("/tmp/out.pdf")

When trying to save to a “.doc” or “.docx” or “.odt” it works fine. But as soon as I try to save to “.pdf” it fails with “Fail: unknown method name `to_str’”.

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Hello
Thanks for your request. When you render documents to PDF, XPS or convert to EPUB that requires embedding of fonts into a document, then Aspose.Words needs to have access to TrueType fonts. If you run Aspose.Words on a Windows system, then by default it will search for fonts in the system Windows\Fonts folder. But if you run Aspose.Words on a Linux system, it does not have a default location for fonts and you need to specify it explicitly.
Use the new com.aspose.words.FontSettings class and setFontsFolder/setFontsFolders methods to specify the location of TrueType fonts.

FontSettings.setFontsFolder("C:\\Users\\Andrey\\IdeaProjects\\awtest");
DocumentBuilder b = new DocumentBuilder();
b.getFont().setName("Water on the Oil");
b.getFont().setSize(72);
b.writeln("Hello World!");
b.getDocument().save("TestHelloWorld Out.pdf");

https://docs.aspose.com/words/java/specify-truetype-fonts-location/
Best regards,

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Thanks, now it’s working :slight_smile: