Hi, I am facing a similar problem, but with Arabic text. Using iReport 3.0.0, While the non-italicized arabic text displays correctly with iReport font as "Sans Serif" and PDF font as arial with "Unicode with Horizontal Writing" as the PDF encoding, When I make it italic, the text is not displayed. (For italic text I tried with both arial.ttf and ArialI.ttf). Using the latest iReport 4.0.2 also, I am facing the same problem. Here, I am using the PDF font as Helvetica-Oblique and encoding as CP1252, however, for non-italicized, it displayes the text, for italic text, it does not. I tried with the "Fonts" and "unicode" demo, but whenever I made the text italic, it stops to be displayed. However, for hebrew text, strangly there is no problem with italicized text. Please help.