Hi Bruno and all, I finally got the problem fixed by the useful resources in the archive. now i set the pdffont to arialuni.ttf and pdfencoding to identity-h and it works for virtually any language now. only drawback, as somebody mentioned in the list that text decoration doesn't quite work with this ttf.
however, what i spotted from my JVM memory running on redhat 8 was it went above 140M during generation of the PDF, that i didn't have to alter Xmx of jvm start script when using the original GB font STSongStd-Light, is it b'coz of the large ttf file or unicode? my arialuni was downloaded by running searches in google, would like to know under what license this ttf is? can we distribute in our software product? many thanks rgds ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jemmee Yung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 2:54 PM Subject: Re: itext unicode support > Quoting Jemmee Yung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi Mr Lowagie, > > > > I got your email in http://www.lowagie.com/. I am a JasperReport user and > > have some queries about the use of pdf fonts in unicode environment, as > > JasperReport says it uses iText for pdf generation I guess you should be > > the right person. browsed itext's project web in sourceforge, not seeing any > > forum area, no choice but bother you now. > > We mostly use the mailinglist [EMAIL PROTECTED] > instead of the forum (I think we have set it to hidden). > The mailinglist is archived here: > http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.comp.java.lib.itext.general > > > We're working on a project with i18n requirement, i.e. our biz data are all > > unicode and in our customers' environemtn, it's common to have data in > > japanese, simplified chinese, traditional chinese and english. as it > > requires to specify a specific pdf font, say for example, we chose > > STSong-Light, then even though it is supposed to be japanese, it'd be shown > > as meaningless characters in chinese. may i know is this a shortcomings of > > pdf by design or any workaround we can opt for? > > I'm not familiar with JasperReports, but I know that people are > using iText to generate documents in almost every Asian language. > My first guess would be that there is some encoding problem. > You say you chose STSong-Light, but is there any way to specify > the encoding? > I forward this mail to the mailinglist; I hope there are some > subscribers using JasperReports who can help you further. > > br, > Bruno ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here:http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/358/0 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
