Just a note: you'll need ColumnText or PdfPTable to have Arabic.
Document.add(Paragraph) won't work. I'm afraid that PDF and RTF with
exactly the same base code is impossible.
Paulo
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> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Asian and Arabic text
>
> GAMBELLI Raffaele wrote:
> > 1) How is the right way to covnert awt font in itext font?
>
> There is no such thing as an iText font.
> iText uses the font files that are present on your system:
> either you provide the path, or iText goes looking for them
> in directories such as "c:/windows/fonts"
> DefaultFontMapper.awtToPdf() does an attempt to map AWT Font
> objects to BaseFont objects. BaseFont objects does an attempt
> at finding the corresponding font, but for special uses, you
> should extend the default font mapper into a specific font
> mapper, for instance: AsianFontMapper provides a mapping to
> CJK fonts. If you need Arabic, you'll have to write your
> ArabicFontMapper, or maybe a UniversalFontMapper.
>
> > 2) I have an input string that can be in any charset,
> > can be from english to arabic to chinese and so on,
> > I'm only asking which is the way in itext pdf to print that string.
>
> See my initial response: you certainly need RTL because
> Arabic is written from right to left; you probably also
> need FontSelector if you want to switch from one font to
> the other using the same String.
>
> > The flow in my software starts from an xml, in which
> > there can be from simple paragraph to a complex table,
> > I must be able to use every element, either Paragraph
> > either PdfPTable to show the right content
>
> Just like the Peace example in Chapter 9 fantastically does.
>
> >
> >>From javadoc of FontMapper:
> > A FontMapper implementation handles mappings between AWT Fonts
> > and PDF fonts. An interface is used instead of a fixed class
> > because there isn't an exact correlation between the font types,
> > so each application is free to define a mapping which is
> appropriate for it.
>
> Hey, that's what I've just explained: one guy contributed
> code to map Asian fonts, the result is the AsianFontMapper!
>
> > In that javadoc too there isn't mention of PdfGraphics2D.
>
> No, but you'll find no examples where DefaultFontMapper is
> used in a context that doesn't use PdfGraphics2D. Your use
> is the first time we hear about some other usage.
>
> Anyway: my initial answer is still valid: use RTL and FontSelector!
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