PDF Encoding problem

[ekindino]

Hi all,

I'm trying to generate a pdf report which has some text at the end which should be entered by the user generating the report. I'm using rich:editor to enter the text via SeamText and then displaying it via p:html in a pdf (I know it has it's shortcomings but it works for me). I even got the encoding working (Cp1254 for me) with the weird combination of p:pont, p:paragraph and p:html tags. The problem is when I use formatting tags like the part inside the tags does not display native characters. If i give styles like bold fo p:font the characters are displayed but I need just some words emphasised in a paragraph.

To illustrate the problem:

<p:font encoding="Cp1254" family="Helvetica">
   <p:paragraph>
      <p:html>
         <s:formattedTex value="These characters are shown: ıİğĞşŞ" />
      </p:html>
   </p:paragraph>
</p:font>

<p:font encoding="Cp1254" family="Helvetica">
   <p:paragraph>
      <p:html>
         <s:formattedTex value="These characters are shown: ıİğĞşŞ" />
      </p:html>
   </p:paragraph>
</p:font>

<p:font encoding="Cp1254" family="Helvetica">
   <p:paragraph>
      <p:html>
         <s:formattedTex value="These characters are shown: ıİğĞşŞ these are not:<strong>ıİğĞşŞ</strong>" />
      </p:html>
   </p:paragraph>
</p:font>

Does anyone know why this is happening or how i can solve this?
Thanks in Advance,
Ekin

[ekindino]

After hours of research, a simple solution presented itself.

FontFactory.defaultEncoding = "Cp1254";

This sets the default encoding for iText as Cp1254 so the secondary font created for the bold part turns out ok. Not a real solution but works well enough for my purposes.

[enda]

Howdy,

here is the trick for Unicode :)

Get font and put it in your project :)

<p:font name="/resources/arialuni.ttf" 
            encoding="Identity-H" 
            embedded="true">
           +ěščřžýáíé+ĚŠČŘŽÝÁÍ
 </p:font>