> -----Original Message----- > From: Kanaras, Nikolaos [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 10:24 AM > To: Paulo Soares > Subject: RE: ≤ and ≤ and probably other similar tags > are invisible > > Thank you very much for the prompt reply, > > I added the following line in my css (the one that is declared in the > xhtml file): body {font-family: "Arial"} > And still nothing different happens. I'm still getting a space instead > of the math symbol I expect. > You meant something different when you said I should use an external > font? Not by declaring it in the css? Can you please explain? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paulo Soares [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 1:39 PM > To: Kanaras, Nikolaos > Subject: Re: ≤ and ≤ and probably other similar tags are > invisible > > It's a font problem. The built-in fonts, like Helvetica, don't have > those > mathematical symbols. Use an external font, like arial.ttf, that > contains > those characters. > > Paulo > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kanaras, Nikolaos" <[email protected]> > To: "Paulo Soares" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 3:28 PM > Subject: ≤ and ≤ and probably other similar tags are invisible > > > Hi Dear Mr. Soares, > > I am trying to make PDFs out of HTMLs. I already read in the book that > iText > is not the best tool for that and there are other tools like > ICEBrowser. > > I am using the Flying Saucer open source project which uses > iText under > the > hoods. I have very nice results with one exception. The resulting PDFs > do > not show some mathematical symbols like ≤ (less than or equal to). > > To solve this, the first thing I did was to move out the Flying Saucer > jars > (and calls) to isolate iText and see where the problem is. I wrote a > very > simple html (attached) that contained a couple of paragraphs > and headers > and > of course the symbol I want to see. Then I used HTMLWorker to > parse it > (attached) guessing that iText limitations on parsing HTML > would not be > visible in such a simple html. The result I got was the simplePdf.pdf > (attached). As you can see everything is fine except that the > le and ge > symbols are invisible. > > So, I tried to debug believing that these tags was just not > supported. I > > would add them and then I would be able to see them. But that was not > the > case. What I show was that when the Document object was complete (all > the > tags returned by HTMLWorker were added to the Document) the symbols I > wanted > to see were there as they should be !!! And they were they > from the very > > beginning. > > So, now I guess that it is not a matter of support. It is rather a > matter of > display. In fact I am lost here because the symbols are in the right > place > but somehow are invisible when output in a pdf. > > Could you please help me with that? > > Many thanks in advance for your precious time. > > With kind regards / Mit freundlichem Gruss > Nikolaos Kanaras > Siemens A.E.- Athens > > Development, Innovations & Projects > Asklipiou Str. 30 > > GR-145 68 Krioneri Attikis / Athens / Greece > > Tel.: +30 210 6265630 > > Fax.: +30 210 6265637 > > E-mail: > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > >
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