I see where the problem is. The font uses the GSUB table to map
various forms. There's work underway to use GSUB applied to the Indic
scripts but that will also benefit Arabic. For the time being it's
unsupported.

Paulo

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Adnan Siddiqi <kad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can this approach solve the issue?
>
> http://www.mindfiresolutions.com/HTML-to-PDF-conversion-using-iTextsharp-1088.php
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Paulo Soares <pgpsoa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Your font doesn't have the required chars. If it works elsewhere it's
>> because another font is being used as a substitute. Can you post the
>> ABCPDF pdf?
>>
>> Paulo
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Adnan Siddiqi <kad...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I got you but the same font has been working fine by using ABCPDF PDF
>> > library. The only difference is that their Library has feature to use
>> > HTML/CSS font code and specify tag by using fontFamily which made it
>> > work.
>> >
>> > How could it be done in iTextSharp?
>> >
>> >
>> > /A
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Paulo Soares <pgpsoa...@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I mean that to display arabic you need four representations for each
>> >> character: isolated, initial, medial, final. You font only has the
>> >> isolated forms. Compare with arialunicode to see the missing
>> >> characters.
>> >>
>> >> Paulo
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Adnan Siddiqi <kad...@gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> >> > From: Adnan Siddiqi
>> >> > Date: Monday, March 25, 2013
>> >> > Subject: Issue in rendering Custom Urdu Font
>> >> > To: Post all your questions about iText here
>> >> > <itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Can you elaborate it further what do you mean by that?
>> >> > p.s: I have even attached the font.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Paulo Soares <pgpsoa...@gmail.com>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> >From what I can see that font only has the isolated arabic forms.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Paulo
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Adnan Siddiqi <kad...@gmail.com>
>> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >> > Hi
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > I had asked this question on Stackoverflow before I cane to know
>> >> >> > about
>> >> >> > mailing list. My concern is posted here:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15609734/itextsharp-does-not-render-custom-urdu-font
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > iTextSharp is not displaying any text when I use Custom Fonts.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Text displays fine when I use times or ArialUnicode but I don't
>> >> >> > need
>> >> >> > any
>> >> >> > of
>> >> >> > them.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Your help will be appreciated.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > /A
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
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