----- Original Message ----- From: "Jemmee Yung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 10:08 Subject: [iText-questions] Re: itext unicode support
> 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. > That's old news. If you use Font it will simulate bold and italic. > 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? > STSongStd-Light it's only the font definition while in the ther case it's the full font. > 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? > I don't think you can unless it's to be used in windows but there are lots of free ttf chinese fonts in the net. I think that Bitstream has a free cyberbit.ttf that has almost as much glyphs as arialuni.ttf. Best Regards, Paulo Soares > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------- 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
