Use Custom Fonts When Creating PDF Using Ireport

Use custom fonts when creating pdf using iReport

You should use the Font Extensions mechanism.

After creating the font and exporting it as a jar file you should add generated jar file to the application classpath.

a) Creating new font in iReport (via Options -> Fonts -> "Install Font" Button)

b) Exporting the new font (or the existing one) as jar file in iReport (via Options -> Fonts -> "Export as extension" Button)

a) Creating new font in JasperReports Studio (via Window -> Preferences -> JasperStudio -> Fonts -> "Add" Button)

b) Configure your fonts

c) Create JAR with your fonts in it

You can find more information about using Font Extensions here.

Adding a font to a jasper report

I know this is a bit late answere XD, but now you have an oficial simple guide on how you could do this steps by steps.

GUIDE

It tells you how to used it on a simple jasper report file, and then how to export and import it to be used on all reports.

When export a report to PDF change the font

You should use the Font Extensions mechanism.

Steps

Creating font in Jaspersoft Studio

You should create a new font with Window -> Preferences dialog:

With Font Family dialog you can set ttf file for your font:

Creating report's style

You should create a new style with help of context menu:

After that you can set font for this style:

And after that you can use this new style:

The sample

The jrxml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- Created with Jaspersoft Studio version last-->
<jasperReport xmlns="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/xsd/jasperreport.xsd" name="test_courier" language="groovy" pageWidth="595" pageHeight="842" columnWidth="555" leftMargin="20" rightMargin="20" topMargin="20" bottomMargin="20" uuid="2010b76c-0fe5-4a27-9c86-6846a6f9cc6a">
    <property name="com.jaspersoft.studio.data.defaultdataadapter" value="Sample DB"/>
    <style name="CustomFont" fontName="Courier New"/>
    <queryString>
        <![CDATA[select task from tasks]]>
    </queryString>
    <field name="TASK" class="java.lang.String"/>
    <title>
        <band height="79" splitType="Stretch">
            <staticText>
                <reportElement uuid="9205f787-f3b4-4b21-b2d9-19f52824e187" style="CustomFont" x="280" y="36" width="70" height="20"/>
                <textElement/>
                <text><![CDATA[Title]]></text>
            </staticText>
        </band>
    </title>
    <detail>
        <band height="20" splitType="Stretch">
            <textField>
                <reportElement uuid="f23e8674-c45d-4dc7-92f3-93e5d0b41c16" style="CustomFont" x="0" y="0" width="70" height="20"/>
                <textElement/>
                <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$F{TASK}]]></textFieldExpression>
            </textField>
        </band>
    </detail>
</jasperReport>

The report's design in Studio:

And the result will be (pdf file generated by Jaspersoft Studion and opened in Adobe Reader):

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Note:

You can find more info about Font Extensions here

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