Not only do you have to pick a font where those characters (glyphs) exist in
teh font - BUT you also need to embed the font in the PDF so that everyone
can see them...
Leonard
2009/1/24 Balázs Grill <balag...@gmail.com>
> Hi!
>
> I tried to create PDFs in hungarian language therefore it contains
> characters such as ő (\u0151) or ű(\u071). These characters are not
> displayed in the resulting PDF.
>
> I created a snippet, which tries to add such characters to the
> document. Am i doing it wrong?
>
> public static void main(String[] args) {
> System.out.println("Start");
> Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 50, 50, 50,
> 50);
> try {
> // step 2
> PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new
> FileOutputStream("encoding.pdf"));
> // step 3
> document.open();
> // step 4
> String text = "Árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép
> .\u0150\u0151\u0170\u0171.";
> document.add(new Paragraph(text,
> FontFactory.getFont(FontFactory.TIMES, 10, Font.NORMAL)));
> }
> catch (Exception de) {
> de.printStackTrace();
> }
> // step 5
> document.close();
> System.out.println("Done.");
> }
>
> I tried to use third-party ttf (and otf) font files, thinking that
> maybe the built-in font files does not contain these characters. The
> font files are loaded and used perfectly, except the mentioned
> characters. Could someone help me solving the problem?
>
> Thanks
>
> Balage;
>
>
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