> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Kostaras [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 2:11 PM
> To: Paulo Soares
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Greek fonts once more...
>
> Hi Paulo,
>
> thanks for your prompt reply.
>
> > > 1. Why CP1253 is not defined in
> > > com.lowagie.text.pdf.BaseFont class in the
> > standard
> > > releases of iText so someone needs to add the
> > > following line:
> > >
> > > /** A possible encoding. */
> > > public static final String CP1253 = "Cp1253";
> > >
> > > to this file and ant-build iText in order to be
> > able
> > > to use Greek fonts? :-)
> > >
> >
> > [Paulo wrote:] It's just a String. We can't have all
> encings as constants.
>
> OK, but you run the danger of being accused of
> language discrimination. On what criteria do you
> contain a certain language and not another? :-)
> By the way, what is the problem for adding all
> encodings? I would even suggest to put all encodings
> to a property file (e.g. encodings.properties) instead
> of having them as constants and reference it from
> BaseFont. This way, users could add missing encodings
> without need for re-compilation. If MS supports all
> languages (even Zulu) why not iText?
>
Either you don't know what you're talking about or you're joking. All the
encodings are supported, just provide a string with the name of the encoding.
> > > BaseFont bfArial =
> > > BaseFont.createFont("c:\\winnt\\fonts\\arial.ttf",
> > > BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
> > > Font font = new Font(bfArial, 18);
> > > document.add(new Paragraph("ÃåéÜ óïõ êüóìå!"));
> > >
> >
> > Almost work. You define the font but don't use it?
> Thanks, it did work, accents too. Sorry, I did forget
> to add:
>
> document.add(new Paragraph("ÃåéÜ óïõ êüóìå!", font));
>
> > > 3. Greek letters are not rendered if printed
> > through Graphics or Graphics2D:
> > >
> > You need here:
> >
> > DefaultFontMapper.BaseFontParameters pp =
> > mapper.getBaseFontParameters("Arial");
> > if (pp!=null) {
> > pp.encoding = BaseFont.IDENTITY_H;
> > }
> >
> > > PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent();
> > > PdfTemplate tp = cb.createTemplate(w, h);
> > > Graphics g = tp.createGraphics(w, h, mapper);
> > > tp.setWidth(w);
> > > tp.setHeight(h);
> > >
> > > java.awt.Font thisFont = new
> > java.awt.Font("Arial",
> > > java.awt.Font.PLAIN, 18);
> > > g.setFont(thisFont);
> > > String pear = "Á÷ëÜäé!";
> > > FontMetrics metrics = g.getFontMetrics();
> > > int width = metrics.stringWidth(pear);
> > > g.drawString(pear, (w - width) / 2, 20);
> > > g.dispose();
> > > cb.addTemplate(tp, 0, 0);
> > >
>
> OK, but where do I use this font? I cannot use it in
>
> g.setFont(font)
>
> because this method accepts java.awt.Font only, not
> com.lowagie.text.font. Could you provide me with a
> full example in this case?
>
Your example should work.
> Thank you again for your replies and this great pdf
> library.
>
> Best regards,
>
> John.
>
>
>
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