Rather than looking for the perfect all-in-one font, use Helvetica for the roman characters. It's only a couple lines more to identify the characters and put them in a different chunk. As Helvetica is a built-in font the PDF size won't grow either.
Best Regards, Paulo Soares ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay Teo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "iText Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 18:44 Subject: [iText-questions] Multilingual (Chinese/English) fonts > > Hi, > > I am generating PDFs with data coming from the database. And the data > can be in either English and/or Chinese. For example, some customers' > name may be in English while others are in Chinese. > > Ideally I want to be able to just use one font regardless of the > language. Now the problem is that all the fonts in Adobe's Asian > Language Pack have big ugly roman letters! All the TrueType fonts I > have seen so far have this problem too. > > So my question is does anyboby know of a Unicode TrueType font (with > Simplified Chinese) with acceptable roman fonts in them? Nothing fancy, > I just want the roman letters to look like Helvetica or something. > > Thanks. > > > -j > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
