I would also recommend that you embed the font, since it is a custom
font and some/most/all of the recipients of the PDF won't have it.
Leonard
On Jun 29, 2007, at 6:49 AM, remgeo wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to use a custom font file to display Chinese characters.
> This is how I am creating the font.
>
> BaseFont bfComic = BaseFont.createFont("c:\\windows\\fonts\
> \HDZB_86.TTF",
> BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
> String text1 = "\u6F22\u9F0E\u7E41\u7425\u73C0";
>
> But in the PDF, no characters are visible.
>
> If I use the fonts as specified in iTextAsian.jar, but that is not
> good
> enough for me. I have to work with custom font files.
>
> Can someone please advise where I am going wrong?
>
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