Hi, Had the same problem that it could not load japanese font. Please make sure to include iTextAsian.jar in your classpath. Then follow the example given in the samples/font. Basically: Assuming ou have used SansSerif non-bold non-italic font in your jrxml: Code: //One entry in the map for all fonts used (note: bold or italic will make it one more key) FontKey key = new FontKey("SansSerif", false, false); PdfFont("HeiseiKakuGo-W5", "UniJIS-UCS2-H", true); fontMap.put(key, font); exporter.setParameter(JRExporterParameter.FONT_MAP, fontMap); exporter.exportReport(); This should work. For chinese you could try using STSong-Light as pdffont, with encoding as UniGB-UCS2-H