What path are you using in linux to get the font file?
Is there a font file in that path?
Do you have access permissions to that font file?
Can you read the font file to a byte array and create the font from
that?
Paulo
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> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 2:05 PM
> To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [iText-questions] "Arial Unicode MS" and
> FontFactory.registerDirectories()
>
>
> I'm using itext for creating PDF file with Unicode encoding.
> My workstation is Windows Vista, so I create fonts using this
> construction:
>
> --------------------------
> BaseFont arialUnicode =
> BaseFont.createFont("C:\\Windows\\Fonts\\arialuni.ttf",
> BaseFont.IDENTITY_H,
> BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
> --------------------------
>
> Then i moved to linux and therefore expirienced exception -
> can't find font
>
> I searched API and docs and found FontFactory.registerDirectories()
> After invocation of this method I'm printing out all
> registered fonts using
> code (all next code snippets run under Windows Vista):
>
> --------------------------
> Set fonts = FontFactory.getRegisteredFonts();
> for (Object font : fonts) {
> System.out.println(font);
> }
> --------------------------
>
> that prints a lot of font names, and also "arialunicodems" and "arial
> unicode ms".
>
> I then tried both of them to pass into BaseFont.createFont()
> using code:
>
> --------------------------
> BaseFont arialUnicode = BaseFont.createFont("arialunicodems",
> BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
> --------------------------
>
> , but that code throws an exception:
>
> --------------------------
> Exception in thread "main" com.lowagie.text.DocumentException: Font
> 'arialunicodems' with 'Identity-H' is not recognized
> --------------------------
>
> Once generated on Linux, PDF file should open (and unicode
> text should not
> be broken) on other Windows machines.
> What am I doing wrong and how can I make the program to work
> on both Windows
> and Linux? (suppose I can copy ARIALUNI.TTF on Linux)
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