How can I set a font type by giving it's path in iText
I tried this one. But it is not working.
Font ff = new Font(Font.getFamily("C:/Windows/Fonts/Harry Potter Regular.ttf"));
ff.setSize(12);
First create a BaseFont with required font file:
BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont(src, myEncoding, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
Then create the actual font with size and style attributes, for example:
com.itextpdf.text.Font f = new Font(bf, 14.5f, Font.ITALIC | Font.BOLD);
The getFamily method you used, refers to the Acrobat predefined fonts: FontFactory.COURIER, FontFactory.HELVETICA, FontFactory.TIMES_ROMAN, FontFactory.SYMBOL, FontFactory.ZAPFDINGBATS.
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Here I am creating the pdf with FUTURA font but my BaseFont.createFont method is giving error. Currently, PDF is being created successfully with Halvetica font but I want that to be created with FUTURA font.
Here I am using itextpdf5.5.13.jar for this activity
I have tried importing tiff file using
BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont("futura",BaseFont.TIMES_ITALIC, BaseFont.EMBEDDED, true, bytesArray, null);
But it is giving error
com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException: Font 'futura' with 'Identity-H' is not recognized.
at com.itextpdf.text.pdf.BaseFont.createFont(BaseFont.java:716)
at com.itextpdf.text.pdf.BaseFont.createFont(BaseFont.java:625)
at com.itextpdf.text.pdf.BaseFont.createFont(BaseFont.java:568)
This is the code I am using to write in the PDF.
PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent();
File file = new File(p.getProperty("FONTFILE"));
byte[] bytesArray = new byte[(int) file.length()];
BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont("futura",BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED, true, bytesArray, null);
cb.saveState();
cb.beginText();
cb.moveText(x, y);
cb.setFontAndSize(bf, size);
cb.showText(text);
cb.endText();
cb.restoreState();
Expected result should be "PDF should create using Futura font"
But it is throwing exception.
BaseFont.createFont uses the first parameter to determine the type of font to instantiate.
If it is a standard 14 font name or a CJK font name (from the Adobe CJK font pack, I assume), the font is initialized from the known characteristics thereof without embedding.
If it is ending with ".afm" or ".pfm", the font is initialized as type 1 font.
If it is ending with ".ttf" or ".otf", or contains ".ttc,", the font is initialized as a true type font.
Otherwise (depending on the boolean noThrow parameter) null is returned or an Exception is thrown.
In the case at hand a true type font shall be loaded. Thus, in
BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont("futura",BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED, true, bytesArray, null);
replace "futura" by "futura.ttf". Or even, as you eventually did, use the complete path and file name of the font file.
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);
In the previous version of itext (5.5.x) I used the BaseFont class as follows:
BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont ("Arial.ttf", BaseFont.WINANSI, true);
Then used the method getWidthPoint
bf.getWidthPoint (TEXT_EXAMPLE, fontSize);
But in the version of itext 7 I am not finding the BaseFont class and also some utility that allows me to get the withPoint of a certain text.
Any help is welcome.
To create a similar font in iText7, use:
PdfFont font = PdfFontFactory.createFont("Arial.ttf", PdfEncodings.WINANSI, true);
To get the width of a certain String, use:
float width = font.getWidth(TEXT_EXAMPLE, fontSize);
I need to use a particular font to make a document because it contains specia charactesrs such as "Đ" that are not supported by the normal fonts iText comes with.
So, I made this:
BaseFont CROACIA = BaseFont.createFont("C:\\FreeSans.ttf",BaseFont.IDENTITY_H,BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
Font CROATA = new Font(CROACIA, 12);
It works fine and my "Đ" problem is solved, the thing is that I cant set it to be bold
I tried to make a different font with "BOLD" setting like this_
Font CROATABOLD = new Font(CROACIA, 12, BOLD);
The code does not seems erroneous but when I apply it to a paragraph it just not work, the font seems as normal as usual
FreeSans and FreeSansBold are different fonts of the same family. You provide a path to the FreeSans.ttf font program and as a result iText can use the regular font in the FreeSans family. If you want to use the bold font, you need to provide a path to FreeSansBold.ttf which is a different font program for a font in the same family.
This is shown in the FreeSansBold example:
public static final String FONT = "resources/fonts/FreeSans.ttf";
public static final String FONTBOLD = "resources/fonts/FreeSansBold.ttf";
public void createPdf(String dest) throws IOException, DocumentException {
Document document = new Document();
PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(dest));
document.open();
BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont(FONT, BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
Font font = new Font(bf, 12);
Paragraph p = new Paragraph("FreeSans regular: \u0110", font);
document.add(p);
BaseFont bfbold = BaseFont.createFont(FONTBOLD, BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
Font bold = new Font(bfbold, 12);
p = new Paragraph("FreeSans bold: \u0110", bold);
document.add(p);
document.close();
}
We have two different fonts FreeSans.ttf and FreeSansBold.ttf of the same family. One is the regular font; the other one is the bold font. If you look at the document properties of the result, free_sans_bold.pdf, you clearly see that two different fonts are at play:
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):