Flying Saucer Font for Unicode Characters

Flying Saucer font for unicode characters

For some reason it started working with following css and .ttf file, which was generated by face-kit-generator:

@font-face {
    src: url('arialuni.ttf');
    -fs-pdf-font-embed: embed;
    -fs-pdf-font-encoding: Identity-H;
}

body {
    font-family: Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode, Arial, verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 8.8pt;
}

Weird thing is that if I put font into some folder, let say "fonts", it will find the font but characters won't be rendered.

PDF generation from HTML having multilingual text using flying-saucer+iText, Only Chinese fonts are working

The style you defined only apply to tag name, and the Hindi and Japanese text is outside this tag. It is rendered with the default font, which does not support all unicode characters.

To fix the bug, you can change your style to use font "Arial Unicode MS" for all document:

body{font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";}

Flying Saucer: Chinese character rendered as a box in PDF

Replacement of a character by an empty square or rectangle usually means that the character is not defined in the font file, and the system doesn't find information to draw it.

In this case, the HTML and CSS code is correct, but the arialuni.ttf file is incomplete.

For reference, the arialuni.ttf should be ~23 MB.

Flying Saucer adding embedded font not working on tomcat

finally solved. in some places i was using

InputStream htmlIS = IOUtils.toInputStream(invoiceHtml);

instead

InputStream htmlIS = IOUtils.toInputStream(invoiceHtml, "UTF-8");

that caused problem.

HTML to PDF with cyrillic characters

This worked for me!

public static void main(String[] args) throws DocumentException, IOException, SAXException, ParserConfigurationException {
        String htmlString = "<!DOCTYPE html>\n" + "<html lang=\"ru\">\n" + "<head>\n"
                + "    <meta charset=\"UTF-8\"/>\n" + "    <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html\"/>\n"
                + "    <meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0\"/>\n" 
                + "    <style type='text/css'> "
                + "        * { font-family: Verdana; }/n"
                + "    </style>/n"
                + "</head>\n"
                + "<body>\n" + "    <h3>ПРЕДСТАВЛЕНИЕ</h3>\n" + "</body>\n" + "</html>";

    String path = FileSystemView.getFileSystemView().getDefaultDirectory().getPath() + "/A.pdf";
    OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(path);
    ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer();
    renderer.getFontResolver().addFont("c:/windows/fonts/verdana.ttf", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
    renderer.setDocumentFromString(htmlString);
    renderer.layout();
    renderer.createPDF(os);
    os.close();
}

Sample Image

I think the trick is to add the CSS to the HTML and the font must match what you set on the PDF.

Flying Saucer Font for Unicode Characters