Close out for anyone Google-ing this in the future.
When you request a font from iText, if it cannot find that font it returns a
different font. And that different font generally does not include Arabic &
Hebrew glyphs.
From: Mark Storer [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 12:10 PM
To: Post all your questions about iText here
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] How to display Arabic
What version of iText are you using?
What OS are you using (I'm gonna guess some version of windows from your file
path).
Examine the return value of getFont() in a debugger. What font is being
returned? I suspect it's not what you're asking for.
--Mark Storer
Senior Software Engineer
Cardiff.com
import legalese.Disclaimer;
Disclaimer<Cardiff> DisCard = null;
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From: David Thielen [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 10:33 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [iText-questions] How to display Arabic
I would swear this has worked in the past – but I can’t get it to display
Arabic or Hebrew. I’ve gone back to the sample in the book – and it doesn’t
work.
Any ideas?
Thanks – dave
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
FontFactory.registerDirectories();
Rectangle pagesize = new Rectangle(8.5f * 72,
11 * 72);
Document document = new Document (pagesize, 72,
72, 72, 72);
PdfWriter writer =
PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream("c:\\test\\report.pdf"));
document.open();
// Font font = FontFactory.getFont("Simplified
Arabic", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, true, 22, Font.BOLD);
Font font = FontFactory.getFont("arialuni",
BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, true, 22, Font.BOLD);
ColumnText column = new
ColumnText(writer.getDirectContent());
column.setSimpleColumn(36, 770, 569, 36);
column.setRunDirection(PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_RTL);
column.addElement(new Paragraph("Arabic",
font));
column.addElement(new Paragraph("اليوم يوم خميث
", font));
column.addElement(new Paragraph("Hebrew",
font));
column.addElement(new Paragraph("אחת שתיים ",
font));
column.go();
document.close();
}
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