arialuni.ttf has the most complete glyph collection. Embedding will make
the PDF work in any OS.
Paulo
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Harakiri
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 12:18 PM
> To: Post all your questions about iText here
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Best Font to support all
> European languages ?
>
> Thanks for the reply, the font looks promising.
>
> As always with embedded fonts - they have to be as
> small as possible to not make a small pdf to large.
>
> Do you know if embedding this font (or any other) will
> work on other OS(Languages) too ?
>
> Is Times Roman better then Arial ? Or is the gentium
> the better choice ?
>
> Thanks
>
> --- mister bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > If you're working on Windows the charmap tool
> > (C:\WINDOWS\system32\charmap.exe) permits you to see
> > the entire set of
> > implemented glyphs in a particular font file. The
> > version of TimesRoman that
> > is bundled with Windows, it appears, covers all
> > European fonts, plus
> > Cyrillic (Russian) and some, (possibly all) Arabic.
> > Another font with all
> > the European characters and many glyphs with
> > multiple diacritics is Gentium,
> > which is available for free
> >
> (http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item
> _id=Gentium)
> > and you can see there in the supporting PDFs the
> > remarkable number of glyphs
> > in the font.
> >
> > Certainly, other list members can point you to other
> > useful resources.
> >
> > ---Mister Bean
> >
> > p.s. Bruno gives a list of font sites in the
> > appendix to his book, by the
> > way.
> >
> > >>> re >>>
> >
> >
> > Harakiri wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > i read the "peace" example with multiple languages
> > and
> > > their font. Im still unsure on the font choice
> > tho, so
> > > far it seems that arial.ttf is able to display all
> > > european languages.
> > >
> > > Can anyone suggest the right font ? Specifically
> > the
> > > major languages like france,german and russian
> > should
> > > be supported in one font set. These do work on my
> > > windows machine but i cant check on a russian
> > winxp
> > > for example.
> > >
> > > Thanks
>
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