Try picking a font that supports all the glyphs you need...
Leonard
On 1/21/09 1:11 AM, "Andrew Slavin" <it...@ansarada.com> wrote:
hi,
i'm writing some text into every page of a pdf document, and that text can
be in any language. when i do that, all non-latin characters in my text just
disappear, even when i set the characterset to utf-8. here is the code in
VB.NET (i use iTextSharp v.4.1.2):
'-------------------------------------------------------------
Dim sInFilePath, sOutFilePath, sText, sCharset As String
sInFilePath = "<path to input pdf file>"
sOutFilePath = "<path to output pdf file>"
sText = "<some unicode text>"
sCharset = "utf-8"
Dim outPdf As New System.IO.FileStream(sOutFilePath,
System.IO.FileMode.Create, System.IO.FileAccess.Write)
Dim reader As New iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfReader(sInFilePath)
Dim stamper As New iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfStamper(reader, outPdf)
Dim baseFnt As iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont =
iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont.CreateFont("c:\windows\fonts\arial.ttf",
sCharset, True)
For i As Integer = 1 To reader.NumberOfPages()
With stamper.GetOverContent(i)
.BeginText()
.SetFontAndSize(baseFnt, 20)
.ShowTextAligned(iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfContentByte.ALIGN_LEFT, sText,
100, 770, 0)
.EndText()
End With
Next
stamper.Close()
reader.Close()
outPdf.Close()
'-------------------------------------------------------------
in the above code, if i, for example, use cyrillic characters in sText, and
explicitly set sCharset to the cyrillic characterset "windows-1251", then it
works. but when i go 'sCharset = "utf-8"', the cyrillic characters just do
not appera in the output pdf file.
can anyone help please?
thank you in advance.
Andrew
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PDF Standards Architect
Adobe Systems Incorporated
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