Thanks a lot for your reply. I found out what the problem was.
I used BaseFont instead of Font and FontFactory.getFont().
Also I added FontFactory.registerDirectory(defaultFontDirectory). Without it
it won't work (I tried to put arialuni.ttf into .../jre/lib/fonts/), but I
suppose I couldn't tweak right "fonts.properties" file.
So, now it work's fine on both Windows and Linux.
Again, thanks for your reply.
1T3XT info wrote:
>
> nanotime wrote:
>> 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);
>> --------------------------
>
> IMO using "c:/Windows/Fonts/arialuni.ttf" is better than using
> "C:\\Windows\\Fonts\\arialuni.ttf".
>
>> Then i moved to linux and therefore expirienced exception - can't find
>> font
>
> Of course not: on linux there is no "C:" drive; that's a windows only
> concept. When I write examples, I use "c:/Windows/Fonts/arialuni.ttf"
> and then I create a directory named "c:" on linux in the working dir
> of my JVM. Funny enough that works ;-)
>
>> I searched API and docs and found FontFactory.registerDirectories()
>
> Of course working with registerDirectories is better.
> My previous remark is just a dirty hack.
>
>> 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've just tested this on Vista:
>
> FontFactory.registerDirectories();
> Font f = FontFactory.getFont("Arial Unicode MS", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H,
> BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
>
> It works. It could also work on linux, provided that you have
> arialuni.ttf in one of the following directories:
> c:/windows/fonts
> c:/winnt/fonts
> d:/windows/fonts
> d:/winnt/fonts
> /usr/X/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType
> /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType
> /usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf
> /Library/Fonts
> /System/Library/Fonts
>
>> 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
>> --------------------------
>
> Works for me with "Arial Unicode MS".
>
>> Once generated on Linux, PDF file should open (and unicode text should
>> not
>> be broken) on other Windows machines.
>
> I don't understand what you are saying here,
> but it probably makes sense to you.
>
>> 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)
>
> If you want to make sure it works on all systems, put arialuni.ttf
> in a path (for instance mypath) and register the font like this:
>
> FontFactory.register("mypath/arialuni.ttf", "MyArial");
> Font font = FontFactory.getFont("MyArial", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H,
> BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
>
> This is (of course!) all explained in the book 'iText in Action'.
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