[iText-questions] Help on using external TTF font

max bertolini Sat, 19 Aug 2006 09:04:10 -0700

Hi All,

I need to write on an existing PDF some text. On top and on the bottom of the page I need to write a code using an OCR-A Font.

Creating a new PDF with the code gave with the example all works fine:

        try {
            PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream("truetype.pdf"));
            document.open();
            BaseFont bfComic = BaseFont.createFont("C:\\usr\\max\\Java\\netBeans\\OCR\\font\\OCRAEXT.TTF", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
            Font font = new Font(bfComic, 12);
            String text1 = "ABCDEFGHILMNOPQRSTUVZ";
            String text2 = "1234567890";
            document.add(new Paragraph(text1, font));
            document.add(new Paragraph(text2, font));
        }
        catch(DocumentException de) {
            System.err.println(de.getMessage());
        }
        catch(IOException ioe) {
            System.err.println(ioe.getMessage());
        }

Whn I try to write on the existing PDF the code gives no error but when I open the PDF Acrobat return an error that say :"Unable to find or create the Font 'YQZMBV+OCRAExtended'" and instead of the printed char I obatain a list of points.

Here an extract of my code:

.....
try {
    PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(Configuration.TEMPLATE_FILE);
    PdfStamper stamp = new PdfStamper(reader, new FileOutputStream(absoluteDestPath + absoluteDestFile));
PdfContentByte content = stamp.getUnderContent(1);

content.beginText ();

BaseFont ocr = BaseFont.createFont("C:\\usr\\max\\Java\\netBeans\\OCR\\font\\OCRAEXT.TTF", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
    content.setFontAndSize (ocr, 20);
    content.showTextAligned (PdfContentByte.ALIGN_LEFT, "1234567890", 450, 20, 0);
stamp.close();
reader.close();

} catch (IOException iOE) {
    throw new WorkSheetCreationException("Template File non accedibile");
}

Please could someone help me on this issue?

Thanks in advance.

Max

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