<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> just see the above tag and do the neccesory changes. It work for me for HINDI UTF-8 data. Thanx