I use itext library for creating PDF file because has very detailed rendering functions for PDF creation. When user click the button i write a template and fill the blank cells from DB everytime.
Than i use Icepdf library for show to user and taking output of the created pdf file.
But Icepdf has some character encoding problem i think. When PDf created and callled by Icepdf one of Turkish character looks as square. Turkish characters can be seen at this link. All characters rendered succesfully but eighth character at the picture is not.
When i go to filepath of created pdf file (created by itext library) and open it manually with Adobe Acrobat Reader all characters showing correctly. But if programaticly Icepdf open the file and show to user, eighth character at the picture looks as square.
I need change character encoding of Icepdf but i can't yet. Reading many articles about character and Font encoding of Icepdf but i have not yet succeeded. If i solve this character problem my application ready to deploy.
The generated PDF file can be downloaded here.
When I open this file with Adobe Acrobat it looks like this:
When I open the file with IcePDF programaticly it looks like thi:
Also i read some questions and answers about this on Stackoverflow but none of them have an accepted answer/help.
Code used to create the file path:
File fUrl = new File(CreateAndViewPdf
.class
.getProtectionDomain()
.getCodeSource()
.getLocation()
.getPath()
);
String path = fUrl
.toString()
.substring(0,fUrl.toString().lastIndexOf(File.separator))
.replace("%20", " ") + "\\hello.pdf";
Code for the createPdf() method:
public void createPdf()throws DocumentException, IOException {
BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont(BaseFont.HELVETICA, "ISO-8859-9", BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
Document document = new Document(PageSize.A5);
PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(path));
document.setMargins(10, 10, 10, 10);
document.setMarginMirroring(true);
document.open();
Font font = new Font( bf );
PdfPCell cell;
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(2);
font = new Font( bf );
font.setSize(15);
font.setStyle("bold");
cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Sender\n"+"Information", font));
cell.setPaddingBottom(7);
cell.setHorizontalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_CENTER);
cell.setVerticalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE);
table.addCell(cell);
font = new Font( bf );
font.setSize(12);
font.setStyle("normal");
cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("â ç ğ ı İ î ö ş ü û\n\n"+"Â Ç Ğ I İ Î Ö Ş Ü Û",font));
cell.setPaddingBottom(7);
cell.setVerticalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE);
cell.setHorizontalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_CENTER);
table.addCell(cell);
table.setWidths(new int[]{50,200});
table.setWidthPercentage(100);
table.setSpacingAfter(10);
table.setSpacingBefore(10);
document.add(table);
document.close();
}
Code for the viewPdf() method:
public void viewPdf(String fileP)throws IOException, InterruptedException {
String filePath = fileP;
SwingController controller = new SwingController();
SwingViewBuilder factory = new SwingViewBuilder(controller);
JPanel viewerComponentPanel = factory.buildViewerPanel();
controller.getDocumentViewController().setAnnotationCallback(
new org.icepdf.ri.common.MyAnnotationCallback(
controller.getDocumentViewController()));
Dimension screen = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
CreateAndViewPdf.this.getContentPane().add(viewerComponentPanel);
CreateAndViewPdf.this.setSize(new Dimension(screen.width/2,screen.height));
CreateAndViewPdf.this.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
controller.openDocument(filePath);
}
--- SOLVED ---
Firstly, thanks for the router comment to #Mike 'Pomax' Kamermans
After reading him/her comments begin investigating " how can i embed the spesific font file to PDF with iText " After 1-2 days later, i found solution just like below;
Going to Windows Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Fonts and copy the times.ttf (which tested all special characters supported font) file to my Java Application resources container.
Than i add below lines to top of my createPDF method.
Font fontBase = FontFactory.getFont("/resources/times.ttf",
BaseFont.IDENTITY_H,
BaseFont.EMBEDDED,
0.8f, Font.NORMAL,
BaseColor.BLACK);
BaseFont bf = fontBase.getBaseFont();
After this, viewPdf() method get the document to screen with all special characters truely rendering.
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while using itext5 in android to display pdf from XHTML am trying to change the font size but it's not reflecting.
I would like to know the substitutes(or hack) for CSS as itext5 is not supporting CSS.
preparedText = output.toString("UTF-8");
list = XMLWorkerHelper.parseToElementList(preparedText, null);
// URL path =Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResource("fontname");
// FontFactory.register(path.toString(), "test_font");
Font titleFont = FontFactory.getFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA_BOLD,7f);
paragraph.setFont(titleFont);
paragraph.addAll(list);
publishProgress(88);
// write to document
document.open();
document.newPage();
Paragraph p= new Paragraph(paragraph);
p.setFont(titleFont);
document.add(p);
document.close();
The font you set in a paragraph applies to all text added to the paragraph afterwards, it does not change the previously added text. To set the font of the text you add to a paragraph in the constructor, there is a constructor that also accepts a font parameter.
Thus, instead of
Paragraph p= new Paragraph(paragraph);
p.setFont(titleFont);
use
Paragraph p = new Paragraph(paragraphText, titleFont);
or
Paragraph p = new Paragraph();
p.setFont(titleFont);
p.add(paragraphText);
I need your help in opening the generated PDF file automatically after it is being written from a bean. I used iText libraries to write a PDF file and in the below method, I am able to generate the PDF, but I do not know how to open it on the fly for the users.
public static void main(String[] args) throws DocumentException, FileNotFoundException, IOException {
Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 50, 50, 50, 50);
document.open();
BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont(
"c://windows/fonts/arialuni.ttf", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
Font font = new Font(bf, 25);
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(1);
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Good Morning", font));
cell.setBorder(Rectangle.NO_BORDER);
cell.setRunDirection(PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_RTL);
table.addCell(cell);
document.add(table);
document.close();
}
I want the PDF file to be shown to the user after it is being written to allow him to print the file, so how can I do this?
You can just open the pdf file in the default pdf viewer installed in on the user's machine.
Use this.
Desktop.getDesktop().open(new File("path/to/pdf"));
The file will be opened in the application whichever is installed on the target machine. (Adobe Reader, Nitro PDF, etc.)
Once the file is opened in the default viewer, the user will be able to print it by pressing ctrl + P
I am trying to use NOTO fonts (https://www.google.com/get/noto/) to display Chinese characters. Here is my sample code,a modified sample code from iText.
public void createPdf(String filename) throws IOException, DocumentException {
Document document = new Document();
PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(filename));
document.open();
//This is simple English Font
FontFactory.register("c:/temp/fonts/NotoSerif-Bold.ttf", "my_nato_font");
Font myBoldFont = FontFactory.getFont("my_nato_font");
BaseFont bf = myBoldFont.getBaseFont();
document.add(new Paragraph(bf.getPostscriptFontName(), myBoldFont));
//This is Chinese font
//Option 1 :
Font myAdobeTypekit = FontFactory.getFont("SourceHanSansSC-Regular", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
//Option 2 :
/*FontFactory.register("C:/temp/AdobeFonts/source-han-sans-1.001R/OTF/SimplifiedChinese/SourceHanSansSC-Regular.otf", "my_hans_font");
Font myAdobeTypekit = FontFactory.getFont("my_hans_font", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);*/
document.add(Chunk.NEWLINE);
document.add(new Paragraph("高興", myAdobeTypekit));
document.add(Chunk.NEWLINE);
//simplified chinese
document.add(new Paragraph("朝辞白帝彩云间", myAdobeTypekit));
document.add(Chunk.NEWLINE);
document.add(new Paragraph("高兴", myAdobeTypekit));
document.add(new Paragraph("The Source Han Sans Traditional Chinese ", myAdobeTypekit));
document.close();
}
I have downloaded the fonts files on my machine. I am using two approaches
To use the equivalent font family in Adobe
Embed the otf file in pdf
Using approach 1, I would expect the Chinese characters to be displayed in pdf but English text is displayed and it is blank for Chinese characters.
Using approach 2, when I try embedding the fonts with pdf, which is not the path I would like to take, there is error in opening pdf.
Update :
If I look at this example http://itextpdf.com/examples/iia.php?id=214
and in this code
public void createPdf(String filename, boolean appearances, boolean font)
throws IOException, DocumentException {
// step 1
Document document = new Document();
// step 2
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(filename));
// step 3
document.open();
// step 4
writer.getAcroForm().setNeedAppearances(appearances);
TextField text = new TextField(writer, new Rectangle(36, 806, 559, 780), "description");
text.setOptions(TextField.MULTILINE);
if (font) {
BaseFont unicode =
BaseFont.createFont("c:/windows/fonts/arialuni.ttf", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
text.setExtensionFont(BaseFont.createFont());
ArrayList<BaseFont> list = new ArrayList<BaseFont>();
list.add(unicode);
text.setSubstitutionFonts(list);
BaseFont f= (BaseFont)text.getSubstitutionFonts().get(0);
System.out.println(f.getPostscriptFontName());
}
text.setText(TEXT);
writer.addAnnotation(text.getTextField());
// step 5
document.close();
}
I substitute, c:/windows/fonts/arialuni.ttf with C:/temp/fonts/NotoSansCJKtc-Thin.otf , I do not see the Chinese characters. The text to convert now is
public static final String TEXT = "These are the protagonists in 'Hero', a movie by Zhang Yimou:\n"
+ "\u7121\u540d (Nameless), \u6b98\u528d (Broken Sword), "
+ "\u98db\u96ea (Flying Snow), \u5982\u6708 (Moon), "
+ "\u79e6\u738b (the King), and \u9577\u7a7a (Sky).";
Clearly you are using the wrong font. I have downloaded the fonts from the link you posted. You are using NotoSerif-Bold.ttf, a font that does not support Chinese. However, the ZIP file also contains fonts with CJK in the font name. As described on the site you refer to, CJK stands for Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Use one of those CJK fonts and you'll be able to product Chinese text in your PDF.
Take a look at the NotoExample in which I use one of the fonts from the ZIP file you refer to. It creates a PDF that looks like this:
This is the code I used:
public static final String FONT = "resources/fonts/NotoSansCJKsc-Regular.otf";
public static final String TEXT = "These are the protagonists in 'Hero', a movie by Zhang Yimou:\n"
+ "\u7121\u540d (Nameless), \u6b98\u528d (Broken Sword), "
+ "\u98db\u96ea (Flying Snow), \u5982\u6708 (Moon), "
+ "\u79e6\u738b (the King), and \u9577\u7a7a (Sky).";
public static final String CHINESE = "\u5341\u950a\u57cb\u4f0f";
public static final String JAPANESE = "\u8ab0\u3082\u77e5\u3089\u306a\u3044";
public static final String KOREAN = "\ube48\uc9d1";
public void createPdf(String dest) throws IOException, DocumentException {
Document document = new Document();
PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(DEST));
document.open();
Font font = FontFactory.getFont(FONT, BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
Paragraph p = new Paragraph(TEXT, font);
document.add(p);
document.add(new Paragraph(CHINESE, font));
document.add(new Paragraph(JAPANESE, font));
document.add(new Paragraph(KOREAN, font));
document.close();
}
You claim that Adobe Reader XI doesn't show the Chinese glyphs, but instead shows a "Cannot extract the embedded Font" message. I can not reproduce this [*]. I have even used Preflight in Adobe Acrobat as indicated here, but no errors were found:
[*] Update: this problem can be reproduced if you use iText 4.2.x, a version that was released by somebody unknown to iText Group NV. Please use iText versions higher than 5 only.
I have that part of code:
//Staff
// Title font
BaseFont titleBf = null;
try {
titleBf = BaseFont.createFont(BaseFont.TIMES_ROMAN,BaseFont.CP1252, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
com.itextpdf.text.Font titleFont = new com.itextpdf.text.Font(titleBf,24);
titleFont.setColor(new BaseColor(0, 0, 204));
/*
* Pdf creation
*/
Document document = new Document();
PdfWriter.getInstance(document,new FileOutputStream(fc.getSelectedFile() + ".pdf"));
document.open();
/*
* Title
*/
Paragraph p = new Paragraph("مرحبا بكم",titleFont);
p.setSpacingAfter(20);
p.setAlignment(1); // Center
document.add(p);
//Staff
document.close();
The output was empty.
Even when I tried to add simple pdfpcell, I got same result, here is the way:
com.itextpdf.text.Font fontNormal = FontFactory.getFont(
("arialuni.ttf"), BaseFont.CP1252, BaseFont.EMBEDDED,
8, com.itextpdf.text.Font.NORMAL);
Chunk chunkArabic = new Chunk("مرحبا العالم", fontNormal);
infoTab.addCell(new PdfPCell(new Phrase(chunkArabic)));
document.add(infoTab);
Different problems may be at play.
Encoding: You are putting Arabic text in your source code. If you save your Java file using the wrong encoding, that text will become corrupt. If you compile your Java file using the wrong encoding, that text will become corrupt. And so on. I hope you get the idea. Store literal text like this: "\u0644\u0648\u0631\u0627\u0646\u0633 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628" to avoid problems like this.
As documented in Chapter 11 of my book, right-to-left writing and Arabic ligatures are only supported in the context of PdfPCell and ColumnText. I see that you're using PdfPCell, but I don't see you using cell.setRunDirection(PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_RTL); anywhere. That's wrong.
You are using an object fontNormal, but you're not telling us which font you're actually using. For instance: if you're using the standard Type1 font Helvetica, no text will show up, because Helvetica doesn't know how to render Arabic text.
Amendment: You've now updated your question, showing that you're using "arialuni.ttf". However, you are using the wrong encoding: CP1252 is the encoding for the Latin Alphabet. You should use BaseFont.IDENTITY_H.
Update: looking at the update of your question as well as the extra comment, I see two major errors.
You are assuming that the name of the font is "arialuni.ttf". That's the font file, but not the font name. Also: you are asking the FontFactory for this font, but did you tell the FontFactory where to look for fonts? Are you sure the FontFactory can locate c:/windows/fonts/ or whatever directory the file arialuni.ttf is stored.
You are declaring a font, but you're not using it: Paragraph p = new Paragraph("\u062D\u064A\u0633\u0648"); creates a Paragraph using the default font.
This is code that works:
BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont(
"c://windows/fonts/arialuni.ttf", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
Font font = new Font(bf, 8);
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(1);
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("\u062D\u064A\u0633\u0648", font));
cell.setRunDirection(PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_RTL);
table.addCell(cell);
document.add(table);
The result looks like this (zoomed in):
I am using the following code to generate Hebrew text in iText.
It works nicely (creates a Hebrew font, and makes the text flow from right-to-left) but the text is left-aligned rather than right-aligned.
Can anyone help me make it right-aligned? Notice that I tried to make the MultiColumnText right-aligned, and the paragraph right-aligned - but to no avail!
Thanks
static Color darkBlue = new Color(0x2F, 0x36, 0x99);
BaseFont unicode = BaseFont.createFont("c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
Font fontDarkBlueHebrew = new Font(unicode, 12, Font.NORMAL,darkBlue);
MultiColumnText mct=new MultiColumnText();
mct.addSimpleColumn(36, PageSize.A4.width()-36);
mct.setRunDirection(PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_RTL);
mct.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_RIGHT);
Paragraph section1a = new Paragraph("כותרת 1",fontDarkBlueHebrew );
section1a.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_RIGHT);
mct.addElement(section1a);
Paragraph section1b = new Paragraph("הטקסט שלע",fontDarkBlueHebrew);
section1b.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_RIGHT);
mct.addElement(section1b);
document.add(mct);
This is by design. When changing the writing direction, everything is reversed: left becomes right and right becomes left. So you need Element.ALIGN_LEFT instead of Element.ALIGN_RIGHT.