Arabic text is not displaying when exporting pdf using jasper reports 5.6 library

[sanjayjha9950]

After googling a lot I found somewhere that the arabic text is working in pdf if we set following attribute-:

pdfFontName:Arial,

pdfEncoding:Identity-H,

isPdfEmbedded:true

 

These attributes can be set in using jasperSoft Studio or by Java code. I have tried both but it throws following error:-

net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRRuntimeException: Could not load the following font :

pdfFontName : Arial

pdfEncoding : Identity-H

isPdfEmbedded : true

 

This works fine when I am using Helvetica/Courier/Times-Roman as the pdfFontName. Thus I am suspecting that the libraries are not getting Arial font

wherever it is looking for pdfFontName. Where should I provide the arial font to make it work. Any help will be appreciated.

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[hozawa]

Did you set up font extensions?

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

[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

[tharindugb]

I got Success by using the following steps.

Used Tool to modify the jrxml file : -  IReport Viewer 5.6

Change the Font type to the Arial of the field which is required.

Change the Encoding property of the filed to - Identity-H (Characters which needs more than 25 bits need this like Arabic which the letters are almost images)

That's It,