There's a bug with TT symbol fonts and Identity-H. Use "Cp1252" instead of
BaseFont.IDENTITY_H.
Best Regards,
Paulo Soares
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thorsten Sch�fer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 13:42
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [iText-questions] Problem adding a font to a PDF
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to add three fonts to my PDF: Arial, Arial bold and Webdings. It
> works for the first two of them but not for webdings! All three font
> files are in the classpath. I also tried to use a full path (c:\...) but
> this also didn't work. Any ideas on that problem?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Thorsten
>
> <code>
> BaseFont font = BaseFont.createFont("arial.ttf", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H,
> BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
> BaseFont fontBold = BaseFont.createFont("arialbd.ttf",
> BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
> // These 2 works
> BaseFont fontSymols = BaseFont.createFont("webdings.ttf",
> BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
>
> // This call throws the following exception:
> com.lowagie.text.DocumentException: PDF
> at com.lowagie.text.pdf.TrueTypeFontUnicode.<init>(Unknown
> Source)
> at com.lowagie.text.pdf.BaseFont.createFont(Unknown Source)
> at com.lowagie.text.pdf.BaseFont.createFont(Unknown Source)
>
> </code>
>
>
>
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