Hi,
I'm doing some tests for exporting some Swing components to PDF using iText.
I have some problems with Unicode strings which don't appear in the PDF.
I saw a lot of Internet pages with some different approaches to correct
this but I didn't manage to find a clean portable way to do that.
Do you have any advice to do that ? For example, is there any way to
create a BaseFont from a font name/family or from a java.awt.Font
instance rather than a file path?
I tested:
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BaseFont unicode = BaseFont.createFont("c:/windows/fonts/arialuni.ttf",
BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
FontMapper fm = new FontMapper() {
@Override
public Font pdfToAwt(BaseFont arg0, int arg1) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
return null;
}
@Override
public BaseFont awtToPdf(Font arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
return unicode;
}
};
Graphics2D g2 = cb.createGraphics(documentWidth, documentHeight, fm);
chart.draw(g2, drawingArea);
g2.dispose();
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which works very nice on Windows but I need a way to do that on Linux
and Mac OS too and I'd also prefer to base the rendering on the existent
java.awt.Font of the Swing source components.
But I didn't managed to use the java.awt.Font in iText.
The java.awt.Font font family based I use is, for example, "Lucida Sans
Console".
At the moment, I'd see these solution which seem not very good to me :
- get, in Java, the system file path equivalent to the java.awt.Font
instance and pass it to iText
- deploy the application with the fonts files for the 3 OS
Could you tell me what would be the best approach to produce a PDF with
iText, based on a java.awt.Font ?
(I'm sorry, It appears to be a common question but I really didn't
manage to achieve this, all the examples I found used some system file
paths)
Thanks in advance for any help.
Sebastian
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