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POGeneration of PDF from HTML with non-Latin characters using ITextRenderer does not work
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copied!<p>This is the 2nd day I spend investigating with no results. At least now, I am able to ask something very specific.</p> <p>I am trying to write a valid HTML code that contains some non-Latin characters in a PDF file using <a href="http://itextpdf.com/" rel="nofollow">iText</a> and more specifically using <strong>ITextRenderer</strong> from <a href="http://code.google.com/p/flying-saucer/" rel="nofollow">Flying Saucer</a>.</p> <p>My short example/code starts by initializing a string variable doc with this value:</p> <pre><code>String doc = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><html xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\" lang=\"en\">" + "<body>Some greek characters: Καλημέρα Some greek characters" + "</body></html>"; </code></pre> <p>Here is the code that I use for debugging purposes. I save this string to HTML file and then I open it through a browser just to double check that HTML content is valid and I can still read Greek characters:</p> <pre><code>//write for debugging purposes in an html file File newTextFile = new File("C:/work/test.html"); FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(newTextFile); fw.write(doc); fw.close(); </code></pre> <p>Next step is to try to write this value in the PDF file. This is my code:</p> <pre><code>ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer(); //add some fonts - if paths are not right, an exception will be thrown renderer.getFontResolver().addFont("c:/work/fonts/TIMES.TTF", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED); renderer.getFontResolver().addFont("c:/work/fonts/TIMESBD.TTF", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED); renderer.getFontResolver().addFont("c:/work/fonts/TIMESBI.TTF", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED); renderer.getFontResolver().addFont("c:/work/fonts/TIMESI.TTF", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED); final DocumentBuilderFactory documentBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory .newInstance(); documentBuilderFactory.setValidating(false); DocumentBuilder builder = documentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder(); builder.setEntityResolver(FSEntityResolver.instance()); org.w3c.dom.Document document = builder.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream( doc.toString().getBytes("UTF-8"))); renderer.setDocument(document, null); renderer.layout(); renderer.createPDF(os); </code></pre> <p>The final outcome of my code is:</p> <p><strong>In HTML file</strong> I get: <em>Some greek characters: Καλημέρα Some greek characters</em> (expected)</p> <p><strong>In PDF file</strong> I get: <em>Some greek characters: Some greek characters</em> (<strong>unexpected</strong> - greek characters are ignored!!)</p> <p>Dependencies:</p> <ul> <li><p>java version "1.6.0_27" </p></li> <li><p>itext-2.0.8.jar</p></li> <li><p>de.huxhorn.lilith.3rdparty.flyingsaucer.core-renderer-8Pre2.jar</p></li> </ul> <p>I also have been experimented with much more fonts, but I guess that my problem has nothing to do with using wrong fonts. Any help is more than welcome.</p> <p>Thanx</p>

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