Problem with arabic characters in PDF

[capitaleArg]

Hi people

I'm facing problems to export PDF reports with arabic characters. When I generate a HTML report, they are correctly shown, but when I generate a PDF one, only '?????' is shown.

I tried to set the PDF encoding of the fields to Cp1256 (Arabic) but it didn't work. Everything else in the report is set to UTF-8.

Could anybody help me with this problem?

Regards
Capitale Arg

[amodg]

Hi,

This might be because the Fonts used for displaying the PDF report doesn't support Cp1256 (Arabic).

One of my friends had faced the similar problem.He had solved this successfully by using 'Arial' font in the report.

Thanks

-Amod

[capitaleArg]

Hi

Thanks for your reply. I tried using Arial (arial.ttf) and Arial Unicode MS (ARIALUNI.TTF), but none of them worked. I'm testing in iReports 2.0.5 only, not in a real application to save time. Could this be a problem?

I'm sort of lost with this problem, any other help will be very welcome.

Bye
Capitale Arg

[amodg]

Hello,

I don't think running the report in the iReport tool  would be a problem.I want to know how you have tried using these fonts.If you have specified them in the 'reportFont' tag in jrxml file then,you have to mention pdfEncoding something like 'Identity-H'.Also in this tag, you can define the path at which the font file(ttf) is located. Let us see if this works out..

Thanks

-Amod

[suresh_v2020]

Hi,

 

Did u find out any solution for the above problem?

 

Regards,

Suresh

[satishmhiremath]

After all workarounds, i am able to fix this issue in Jasper ireport as follows

In Text Properties :

Font Name : Arial

Pdf Font Name : ../arial.ttf

Pdf Embedded : true

Pdf Encoding : Identity-H

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In your Project META-INF folder

Create and Add reports folder containing arial.ttf files and font.xml

Outside META-INF folder, add jasper-extensions.properties file

So finally,  

jasper-extensions.properties --- Uses --- fonts.xml --- Uses --- true type font files   

jasper-extensions.properties file --> fonts.xml ---> arial.ttf 

 

Regards,

Satish M Hiremath

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

satishmhiremath@gmail.com