The font must permit embedding for this to work. Most fonts do, but many do
not. Have you checked this particular font file?
---mr. bean
Balázs Grill wrote:
>
> I've loaded the fonts using
> BaseFont.createFont("file.ttf",BaseFont.IDENTITY_H,true);
> The last parameter says that this font should be embedded in the
> document, isn't it?
>
> Do i need explicitly embed the fonts above this?
>
> 2009/1/24 Leonard Rosenthol <leona...@pdfsages.com>:
>> Not only do you have to pick a font where those characters (glyphs) exist
>> in
>> teh font - BUT you also need to embed the font in the PDF so that
>> everyone
>> can see them...
>>
>> Leonard
>>
>> 2009/1/24 Balázs Grill <balag...@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I tried to create PDFs in hungarian language therefore it contains
>>> characters such as ő (\u0151) or ű(\u071). These characters are not
>>> displayed in the resulting PDF.
>>>
>>> I created a snippet, which tries to add such characters to the
>>> document. Am i doing it wrong?
>>>
>>> public static void main(String[] args) {
>>> System.out.println("Start");
>>> Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 50, 50, 50,
>>> 50);
>>> try {
>>> // step 2
>>> PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new
>>> FileOutputStream("encoding.pdf"));
>>> // step 3
>>> document.open();
>>> // step 4
>>> String text = "Árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép
>>> .\u0150\u0151\u0170\u0171.";
>>> document.add(new Paragraph(text,
>>> FontFactory.getFont(FontFactory.TIMES, 10, Font.NORMAL)));
>>> }
>>> catch (Exception de) {
>>> de.printStackTrace();
>>> }
>>> // step 5
>>> document.close();
>>> System.out.println("Done.");
>>> }
>>>
>>> I tried to use third-party ttf (and otf) font files, thinking that
>>> maybe the built-in font files does not contain these characters. The
>>> font files are loaded and used perfectly, except the mentioned
>>> characters. Could someone help me solving the problem?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Balage;
>>>
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