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From: "Bruno Lowagie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Post all your questions about iText here"
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Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] add arabic font
> smsm kw wrote:
>
>> i want to add arabic font but when i did that by using this line :
>>
>> BaseFont bfComic =
>> BaseFont.CreateFont("D:\\windows\\fonts\\aswaq_tahoma_base.ttf",
>> BaseFont.CP1250 , BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
>>
>> Font font = new Font(bfComic, 12);
>>
>> i got a wrong result (rubbish result)
>>
> Arabic is written from right to left and has ligatures.
> You can only use Arabic fonts in combination with
> PdfPTable, (Multi)ColumnText and PdfContentByte;
> you can change the run-direction of these objects,
> as well as some Arabic options.
> There are some examples in the tutorial.
Furthermore you must use the encoding Identity-H.
Paulo
> br,
> Bruno
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