Hello everyone,
I've been strugling with a pdf i have to generate in greek. As you may immagine not every font has greek letters so I had to embbed my own in the project and this is where my issu began.
I'm developing for an OSGI environment so I tried to add my generated jar from jasperSoft studio into the application classpath, once I've wasted many hours trying to make it work I found this post on stack overflow:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57918748/how-to-programmatically-load-font-extension-at-runtime
The important part is that we could create a Jasper context of our own and add the font there:
SimpleJasperReportsContext jasperReportsContext = new SimpleJasperReportsContext(); SimpleFontFamily fontFamily = new SimpleFontFamily(jasperReportsContext); fontFamily.setName("family name");//to be used in reports as fontName fontFamily.setPdfEmbedded(true); fontFamily.setPdfEncoding("Identity-H"); SimpleFontFace regular = new SimpleFontFace(jasperReportsContext); regular.setTtf("font ttf path"); fontFamily.setNormalFace(regular); jasperReportsContext.setExtensions(FontFamily.class, Arrays.asList(fontFamily)); //use the context when filling and exporting reports //note that there are variations here depending on the API you use for filling and exporting JasperPrint jasperPrint = JasperFillManager.getInstance(jasperReportsContext).fill(jasperReport, params); ... JasperExportManager.getInstance(jasperReportsContext).exportToPdf(jasperPrint);
This seemed a good path to follow but now i'm not entirely sure it's possible to add a font in runtime. Inside the jasperReports I've found the method used to fill the report:
/** * @see #fill(InputStream, Map, JRDataSource) */ public static JasperPrint fillReport( InputStream inputStream, Map<String,Object> parameters, JRDataSource dataSource ) throws JRException { return getDefaultInstance().fill(inputStream, parameters, dataSource); }
Which means that it will alway ignore my custom instance with my jasperReportContext and will create a new one with it's default context.
Having said all that, I would like to know if there is any wsay to achive my goal of registering a font (ttf) programatically / in run time
Best Regards
