Chris Bredesen wrote:
Hi All,
I have some data that are stored in UTF-8 but use glyphs that are not
part of the standard Latin1 fonts that PDF specifies. I can
successfully get these characters to render when I directly load the
font using its disk path, but not when I access the font by name.
To recap, this works:
BaseFont.createFont("c:\\windows\\fonts\\Arial.TTF",
BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
You did do something like
FontFactory.register("c:\\windows\\fonts\\Arial.TTF");
before executing the line that follows, did you? Otherwise iText won't
find the font.
But this doesn't:
FontFactory.getFont("Arial", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, 10)
Neither throws an Exception, it's just that the second one skips over
the non Latin1 characters (example: ĞaŞ).
Helvetica is used instead of the font that wasn't found.
Is there a way to get these characters to render without having to
know the path to the font? We develop on Windows and deploy on
Linux. We have the MS TTF's installed on our Linux boxes but I have
not even attempted to try this yet because I want to avoid having to
know the path to the fonts.
Look at the registerDirectories method in FontFactory.
Is there another method I should be trying? Possibly jar-ing up the
TTF's and deploying them with the app?
That would be a solution too.
br,
Bruno
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