Incorrecly displying Hindi unicode font in pdf

[sujith]

I created pdf using ireport, but hindi font is not displaying correcly in pdfs. Here I am attaching two pdfs, one is created using ireport and other one created using adobe pdf convertor. second one displaying hindi correcly. One difference I noticed is that, if I am creating pdf using ireport it is adding one unwanted font (Helvetica) in pdf. [file name=My_Documents.zip size=11138]http://www.jasperforge.org/components/com_joomlaboard/uploaded/files/My_Documents.zip[/file]

 

Post edited by: sujith, at: 2007/12/22 05:03

 

Post edited by: sujith, at: 2007/12/22 05:04

Post edited by: sujith, at: 2007/12/22 05:07

[yaramada123]

pdf default font is set to Helvetica in the default.jasper.properties file, change it to the font you want to make it work also you can change other properties like default size etc.,

 

net.sf.jasperreports.default.pdf.font.name=Helvetica

 

Hope this helps!!!

 

Jagadeesh

[sujith]

Sorry . it would be helpful if i get more explanation.

i'm generating pdf report using ireport 1.2.0. I could not find the properties file u mentioned in the distribution. Can u please help me out ??

 

sujith

[yaramada123]

Hi,

iReports does not contain this property file, iReports uses jasperreports API to fill and export the report. Look for jasperreport jar in the iReports lib directory and this property file will be present in the root folder when you unzip the JAR.

 

All the Best!!!

[sujith]

Hi,

 

I extracted the jasperreports-1.2.1.jar, but I could't find out the properties file. Hindi is displaying correctly in JR Viewer and Excel.

 

Thanks,

Sujith

[Teodor Danciu]

Hi,

 

Forget about the jasperreports.properties file.

You don't need to go that deep.

 

What you need to understand is that when exporting to PDF, you need to specify the fonts to be used in the PDF file and even embed them into the PDF file, unless you rely on Helvetica, which is the default.

Helvetica is not good for you, because it does not support Hindi.

 

I'm pretty sure you use the fontName attribute to specify a font that supports Hindi. This is why it works for you in the JR Swing viewer. For PDF, you need to also use the pdfFontName, pdfEncoding and isPdfEmbedded attributes to indicate the TTF file to be used in PDF, the enconding and whether the font should be embedded into the resulting PDF file, in case those who view the PDF do not have the Hindi font installed on their machines or PDF viewers.

 

You should take a closer look at the supplied /demo/samples/unicode sample provided with the project and see how we display Arabic and Hebrew texts that also work in PDF.

 

I hope this helps.

Teodor

[sujith]

I think this is not the problem with ireport. It is the problem with itext which is not supporting indic languages correcly. Plz check the following link.

 

http://itext.ugent.be/library/question.php?id=741

 

Thanks,

Sujith

[reinerm]

teodord wrote:

What you need to understand is that when exporting to PDF, you need to specify the fonts to be used in the PDF file and even embed them into the PDF file ... You should take a closer look at the supplied /demo/samples/unicode sample provided with the project and see how we display Arabic and Hebrew texts that also work in PDF.

 

hello theodor, hello everybody!

 

i have a similar problem with greek letters in a report but i am using "Arial" for fontName and "ARIAL.TTF" for pdfFontName (exactly as in above mentioned unicode sample - which works fine on my system)

 

when trying to generate a PDF using

Code:

jasperReport = JasperCompileManager.compileReport(reportXML);
            jasperPrint = JasperFillManager.fillReport(jasperReport, parameters, dataSource);

...

output = JasperExportManager.exportReportToPdf(jasperPrint);

 

in my application sourcecode,

i get an exception:

Code:

[code] net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRException: Could not load the following font : pdfFontName : ARIAL.TTF pdfEncoding : Identity-H isPdfEmbedded : true ...

 

my .jrxml file is located inside a .jar file and i am running my application on a jboss application server - could this be part of the problem?

 

 

can't figure it out on my own.. please help.. :(

 

 

thanks in advance,

reiner

 

 

 

please note: i know it does work when setting

Code:

[code] pdfFontName="C:WindowsFontsARIAL.TTF"

in the jrxml file - but setting hardcoded absolute paths is no option for me

Post edited by: reinerm, at: 2008/04/29 15:56

[reinerm]

attached: report file trimmed to the one problematic text field of original report

 

[file name=report-51c37396ad9fa35d92ff5c9451eb56b2.jrxml size=2739]http://www.jasperforge.org/components/com_joomlaboard/uploaded/files/report-51c37396ad9fa35d92ff5c9451eb56b2.jrxml[/file]

[rkvsraman]

Hi,

The problem is that iText does not support OpenType Fonts.

We have a workaround.

Read the full story  here  or

get the source from  here

[anyone]

 Hi

For UTF-8 set pdffontname with path to font.ttf and set ispdfEmbeded=true.

It works for me.

Thanx

AnyOne.

<textElement textAlignment="Left" verticalAlignment="Top" rotation="None" lineSpacing="Single">

<font fontName="Mangal" size="12" isBold="true" isItalic="false" isUnderline="false" isStrikeThrough="false" pdfFontName="C:\Windows\Fonts\Mangal.TTF" pdfEncoding="Identity-H" isPdfEmbedded="true"/>

</textElement>