Hi all, I'm sorry if this is the wrong place for my question.
I was seaching for a way to dynamically generate a PDF in Java code by drawing to a Graphics2D object. When I googled this, I found Apache FOP 1.0 which has a org.apache.fop.svg.PDFDocumentGraphics2D class (derived from Graphics2D), which seems to support dynamically generating a PDF by drawing to it. E.g., I use code like this to generate a PDF and write it to an OutputStream (using Java 1.7): PDFDocumentGraphics2D g = new PDFDocumentGraphics2D(false, out, 842, 595); g.setGraphicContext(new org.apache.xmlgraphics.java2d.GraphicContext()); g.setFont(new Font(Font.SANS_SERIF, Font.PLAIN, 12)); g.drawLine(10, 10, 100, 100); g.drawString("Hi!", 30, 30); g.nextPage(); // switch to next page g.drawString("This is the 2nd page.", 30, 30); g.finish(); g.dispose(); This seems to be working really well, using the integrated PDF Fonts. However, I now have the problem that these integrated fonts seem not to support Unicode characters, e.g. if I use g.drawString("\u263a", 30, 30); then the Character is substituted by a "#" and a warning is printed: Feb 07, 2012 1:10:11 PM org.apache.fop.fonts.Typeface warnMissingGlyph Warnung: Glyph 9786 (0x263a, smileface) not available in font Helvetica So, I was searching for a way to embed a TTF font in the PDF. However, I wasn't successful finding information about it, as it seems the FOP documentation and examples are only about XSL-FO (which I don't know much about, as I only need to generate PDFs by drawing to a Graphics2D), but using a PDFDocumentGraphics2D seems not to be well-documented. So I'm not sure if this is even an intended way to use FOP, or if there are other/better solutions to generate a PDF by drawing to a Graphics2D object in Java. My questions are: Is using FOP for generating a PDF by drawing to a Graphics2D a recommended way? Is it possible to embed TTF fonts when drawing to a PDFDocumentGraphics2D object? If yes, how? Thanks! Best Regards, Konstantin Preißer --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org