The built-in font Helvetica has the Euro character since Acrobat 4.0 in windows. I don't know about other platforms or viewers.
Best Regards, Paulo Soares > -----Original Message----- > From: Yalavarthi, Vasu [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 17:26 > To: 'Paulo Soares'; 'Itext-Questions (E-mail) > Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Character Set: Displaying Euro symbol > > I am not embedding any font. > I am using "Helvetica", "winasi" font with a font size of "8". > Doesn't this font contain the Euro symbol character? > > Should this font be present on the server-side (where pdf is generated) or > the client side (where the pdf is viewed in an Acrobat reader/plugin)? > The reason why i am asking this question is, If i use my machine as the > server, i could see the euro character from reader on mychine and if i use > some other machine as server, i couldn't see the euro character. In both > the > cases, the client is the reader on my machine. > > Any suggestion to overcome this problem? > > Thanks, > Vasu > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paulo Soares [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 2:25 AM > To: 'Yalavarthi, Vasu'; 'Itext-Questions (E-mail) > Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Character Set: Displaying Euro symbol > > > If you are not embedding the font then Acrobat uses the available font in > the system or if this font is not available uses the built-in font. One of > the fonts used does not contain the Euro character. > > Best Regards, > Paulo Soares > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Yalavarthi, Vasu [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 19:22 > > To: 'Itext-Questions (E-mail) > > Subject: [iText-questions] Character Set: Displaying Euro symbol > > > > Hi, > > My servlet generated PDF contains an Euro character symbol (ASCII - > 0128) > > and i am displaying the output in an Acrobat plugin. > > When the servlet is running on my machine, the Euro symbol ( 'EUR' ) is > > visible, but when the servlet is running on some other machine, the > > generated PDF contains a "?" symbol for the Euro symbol ( 'EUR' ). > > The same servlet generates Excel output and the Euro symbol is visible > in > > Excel output irrespective of on which machine the servlet is run. > > > > Is it any configuration issue with regard to Acrobat? Does Acrobat use > its > > own character set? > > > > Does anyone know how to fix this issue? > > > > Thanks, > > Vasu > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > iText-questions mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
