HELP!!! PDF generation and unicode

[rmemoria]

Hi,

Does anybody know how to display unicode chars in PDF generated by seam?

The messages come from the messages.property and contains chars in unicode (romanian alphabetic)

They are displayed perfectly in xhtml pages, but when the PDF is generated the special chars aren't displayed.

Please any tip is welcome! This is the only requirement in the system that is still pending.

Thanks,
Ricardo Memória

[rmemoria]

Hi guys,

It's really urgent!

Does anybody has a solution for that??? Anything!

Thanks,

[dhinojosa]

What does the top declaration of your facelet page look like?

[rmemoria]

Hi,

It's like that:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<p:document xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
 xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
 xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core"
 xmlns:p="http://jboss.com/products/seam/pdf"
 orientation="landscape">

 <f:facet name="header">
 <p:font size="6">
 <p:footer borderWidthTop="1" alignment="left">Drug Management System [<p:pageNumber />]</p:footer>
 </p:font>
 </f:facet>

The encoding is thesame I use in my xhtml pages, but in PDFs the special unicode chars aren't displayed.

[jazir1979]

I believe it's a PDF font issue, I had the same problem in jasper reports which also uses iText, and had no luck after trying to use their asian fonts JAR to get chinese characters.

See here: http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/tutorial/fonts/index.php

Post back if you have any success...

"rmemoria" wrote:
Hi,

It's like that:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<p:document xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
 xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
 xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core"
 xmlns:p="http://jboss.com/products/seam/pdf"
 orientation="landscape">

 <f:facet name="header">
 <p:font size="6">
 <p:footer borderWidthTop="1" alignment="left">Drug Management System [<p:pageNumber />]</p:footer>
 </p:font>
 </f:facet>

The encoding is thesame I use in my xhtml pages, but in PDFs the special unicode chars aren't displayed.