Helvetica doesn't have any Thai glyphs inside. You'll have to use an
external font like arialuni.ttf. Note that iText can't break Thai words
correctly. Indic charsets need a lot more to break words.
Best Regards,
Paulo Soares
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Thielen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'itext'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 4:44
Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Thai fonts not displaying
>
> Hi;
>
> The following is not working for me:
>
> // set earlier
> PdfContentByte cb;
>
>
> // the code
> Font font = FontFactory.getFont("Helvetica", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, false,
> 12.0f);
> BaseFont bf = font.getBaseFont();
> cb.beginText();
> cb.setFontAndSize(bf, 12.0f);
> cb.showTextAligned(PdfContentByte.ALIGN_LEFT, "text that includes some
> thai", 72.0f, 72.0f, 0);
> cb.endText();
>
> // notes
> 1) In the debugger the text does have thai in it
> 2) In the debugger bf.encoding == "Identity-H"
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks - dave
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paulo Soares [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 7:42 AM
> To: David Thielen; itext
> Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Thai fonts not displaying
>
> If you're using the encoding Identity-H it works every time. Note that
> bookmarks may not show but that is only dependent on the viewer and the
> platform.
>
> Best Regards,
> Paulo Soares
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> > Behalf Of David Thielen
> > Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 1:59 PM
> > To: itext
> > Subject: [iText-questions] Thai fonts not displaying
> >
> > Hi;
> >
> >
> >
> > Does anything special need to be done, either with iText, how
> > I call it, or
> > Acrobat itself so that Thai displays correctly? We have a user who has
> > everything except Thai characters displaying fine but the
> > Thai does not
> > display.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks - dave
>
>
>
>
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