I create fonts from the actual font file and use them in the PdfGraphics2D to draw text, for the pdf side I use the location of the actual font to create them, register the names, place them in the FontMapper and pass it on to the writer.
This all works fontastic.
A font (family) typically consists of four styles, regular, italic, bold and bolditalic. Usually there are four fonts like in Arial, Times, Courier a.o. containing these individual styles.
Yet my question;
Is there anyway in itext to use bold and italic for a 'single' font like Microsoft Sans Serif. If I load the font and pass the styles it is only drawn regular.
I've read "The Bold, Italic an BoldItalic styles don't work with embedded fonts." "When you are using a built-in font, applying another style, changes the font.
For instance: when you are using 'Arial' and you change the style into italic, the font is replaced internally by 'Arial Italic' (which is a totally different font).
In this case you will have to embed both fonts: "arial.ttf" and "ariali.ttf" http://itextsharp.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ch09.html but Microsoft Sans Serif is just one font.
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