> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Chan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 23:56
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Big5_HKSCS character problem
>
> Thank you for your reply.
>
> Where can I download vert_cjk2.java? iText Tutorial section?
>
http://www.geocities.com/itextpdf
> Actually I am developing my programs under red hat 8.0 and using xpdf to
> generate my pdf document. Does you solution applied under my environment?
> Do
> I need to install Acrobat 5.0 for my OS?
>
I have no idea, I only work with windows.
Best Regards,
Paulo Soares
> >From: Paulo Soares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: 'Ray Chan' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Big5_HKSCS character problem
> >Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 17:13:33 -0000
> >
> >The problem with the HK extensions is that they are not mapped to
> Unicode.
> >If you go from big5 to Unicode some characters will be dropped. iText
> >supports the character addressing by CID allowing all the characters in
> the
> >document 5080.Adobe-CNS1-4.pdf to be used. The drawback is that you'll
> have
> >to convert the big5 extended to this CID codes. The conversion table is
> >available in the Adobe site as HKscs-B5-H.
> >The font must be created as:
> >
> >BaseFont bfChinese = BaseFont.createFont("MSungStd-Light", "Identity-H",
> >BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
> >
> >MHei-Medium is from Acrobat 4.0 and doesn't have the extensions.
> >See the example vert_cjk2.java for a simple CID use.
> >Maybe this and other conversions should be available in the Asian iText
> jar
> >
> >Best Regards,
> >Paulo Soares
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Ray Chan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 16:22
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: [iText-questions] Big5_HKSCS character problem
> > >
> > > I want to use iText with java to create pdf with traditional chinese
> > > characters particularly the hong kong big5 extention fonts Big5_HKSCS.
> I
> > > use
> > > tutorial 9 Chap0909.java to test but found that in the output pdf, the
> > > hong
> > > kong characters like \u90A8, \uF303 become blank if the java string is
>
> >in
> > > utf8 and become ? if use Big5_HKSCS encoding for my string.
> > >
> > > Also, I have to print data to pdf from postgresql database which is
> >mainly
> > >
> > > using traditional chinese and hong kong fonts in form/table format.
> > >
> > > Any help would be appreciate.
> > >
> > >
> > > Part of my test code:
> > > **********************
> > > ......
> > > // step 3: we open the document
> > > document.open();
> > > String chistr = "\u8CC7\u6599 abc123 - \u4E8B\u4EF6 [ \u90A8 & \uF303
>
> >]";
> > > String pdfstr = new String(chistr.getBytes(), "Big5_HKSCS");
> > >
> > > // step 4: we add content to the document
> > >
> > > BaseFont bfChinese = BaseFont.createFont("MHei-Medium",
> "UniCNS-UCS2-H",
> > > BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
> > >
> > > Font FontChinese = new Font(bfChinese, 12, Font.NORMAL);
> > >
> > > Paragraph chunk = new Paragraph(pdfstr, FontChinese);
> > >
> > > document.add(chunk);
> > >
> > > ......
> > >
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