Daniel wrote:
> Hello again,
> Fair enough that there is no Cyrillic characters in the normal fonts. But I
> am sure I am not alone in wanting to generate pdfs with Cyrillic
> characters. So what is a good approach to doing so? Any suggestions?
Look for (or buy) a font that has the Cyrillic characters.
Jar it with your application. Get an instance of Font from
the FontFactory or create a Font object with a BaseFont object.
> I am not very keen on distributing fonts for legal reasons.
Aha, if your application runs on a server, make sure you are
allowed to create PDFs with that font. If you are writing an
end user application, make sure your customer have (or buy)
the font.
> My whole
> application is localized to Russian and shows Cyrillic characters without
> any problem. So the question is, could I ask Swing/AWT for the font and use
> that font? Or is there a better way to get around this?
Fonts in Swing and fonts in PDF are dealt with in a completely
different way. If you are displaying the text in a Swing component,
there are two ways to make some kind of 'screenshot' in PDF.
1) you map the Swing font to a font file, this doesn't solve
your problem as you still need the font file.
2) you let Swing draw the glyphs to the PDF. This is not a path
you want to go unless there's really no alternative:
PDFs created this way are much larger in file size, they
are not searchable,... I wouldn't recommend this.
So in short: all the other people that need Cyrillic in their
PDF document use a TTF, OTF, or other file that has the glyphs
because that's the best solution.
br,
Bruno
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