And as a follow-up to everyone else - I added code to convert the chars 0x80 - 0x9f to their mapped values in codepage 1252 and it all works great now.
thanks - dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paulo Soares" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'David Thielen'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "itext" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 4:52 AM Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Displaying Wingdings > Yes. > > Best Regards, > Paulo Soares > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: David Thielen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 5:37 > > To: itext > > Subject: [iText-questions] Displaying Wingdings > > > > Hi; > > > > Here's what I think the problem is. When I select Wingdings as the font, > > the createFont call requires a codepage. So I do Cp1252. > > > > For any 1252 chars that map straight through (ie 0-7f, a0-ff) it works > > fine. But for chara 80-9f they don't show up. > > > > I'm guessing that the system is mapping them through codepage 1252 and > > finding no unicode character 0x93 in the codepage, it displays a box. > > > > Is the solution to replace the character with the unicode character that > > maps to that character in 1252? > > > > thanks - dave > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! > http://www.vasoftware.com > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions