How to display Arabic language fonts in pdf reports using Jasper(iReport) designer

[satishmhiremath]

Hi Team,

As I tried using unicode with  

properties as UTF-8, Font Name DejaVu Sans, pdfEmbedded=true, pdf encoding=cp1256(Arabic) , installing Dejavu Sans.ttf  file

as below for displaying Arabic text in Jasper tool as text field expression

($F{state.locale}.equalsIgnoreCase("AR") || $F{state.locale}.equalsIgnoreCase("ar-EG")) ? "\u0627\u0633\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0646\u062A\u062C" :"Product Name"

But the result in pdf is not displaying in arabic.

It displays the same Hadcoded Unicode \u0627\u0633\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0646\u062A\u062C

or

?????????

Kindly do the needfull to display Arabic text fonts ASAP.

 

Regards,

Satish M Hiremath

[hozawa]

The main problem is you're using iReport. Switch to Jaspersoft Studio.

http://community.jaspersoft.com/wiki/custom-font-font-extension

 

[satishmhiremath]

As tried the suggestions given below, but they are not working in Jasper Studio and the pdf output has same issue

 

[satishmhiremath]

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

In Text Properties of jrxml:

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 

The syntactical contents of

Font.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

   <fontFamilies>

<fontFamily name="Arial">

       <normal><![CDATA[META-INF/reports/fonts/arial.ttf]]></normal>

       <bold><![CDATA[META-INF/reports/fonts/arialbd.ttf]]></bold>

       <italic><![CDATA[META-INF/reports/fonts/ariali.ttf]]></italic>

       <boldItalic><![CDATA[META-INF/reports/fonts/arialbi.ttf]]></boldItalic>

       <pdfEmbedded><![CDATA[true]]></pdfEmbedded>

   </fontFamily>

</fontFamilies>

jasper-extensions.properties :

net.sf.jasperreports.extension.registry.factory.fonts=net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fonts.SimpleFontExtensionsRegistryFactory

net.sf.jasperreports.extension.simple.font.families.myfamily=META-INF/fonts.xml

 

Regards,

Satish M Hiremath

[harshavardhan247]

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 

The syntactical contents of

Font.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

   <fontFamilies>

<fontFamily name="Arial">

       <normal><![CDATA[META-INF/reports/fonts/arial.ttf]]></normal>

       <bold><![CDATA[META-INF/reports/fonts/arialbd.ttf]]></bold>

       <italic><![CDATA[META-INF/reports/fonts/ariali.ttf]]></italic>

       <boldItalic><![CDATA[META-INF/reports/fonts/arialbi.ttf]]></boldItalic>

       <pdfEmbedded><![CDATA[true]]></pdfEmbedded>

   </fontFamily>

</fontFamilies>

jasper-extensions.properties :

net.sf.jasperreports.extension.registry.factory.fonts=net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fonts.SimpleFontExtensionsRegistryFactory

net.sf.jasperreports.extension.simple.font.families.myfamily=META-INF/fonts.xml

I didn't get this 

 

[harshavardhan247]

<textElement>

<font fontName="Arial" isBold="true" isItalic="true" pdfFontName="Home/Music/arial-cufonfonts" pdfEncoding="Identity-H" isPdfEmbedded="true"/>

</textElement>   correct me where I am doing wrong