How to display Arabic text?

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By: Si Keen - swjkeen

How to display Arabic text?

2003-09-27 04:07

I am reporting against an Oracle DB that holds some fields in Arabic. When I try to create the PDF report, having not chosen a specific Arabic font or codepage, the column containing the Arabic text is blank. However, having stepped through my Java application with a debugger, I can see that the Arabic has been fetched and it seems to be well formed.

 

I am assuming that I just have to correct the display of this data. Can anyone give me advice as to what font and codepage to use, any other configuration, etc?

 

 

 

 

By: Giulio Toffoli - gt78

RE: How to display Arabic text?

2003-09-29 06:13

Try to increase fields height.

 

Giulio

 

 

 

 

By: Hani Naguib - haninaguib

RE: How to display Arabic text?

2003-10-16 14:26

Jasper Reports uses iText to generate pdf. IText does not have proper support for Arabic.

 

To display Arabic I have had to use embed fonts (since the default fonts dont have the arabic characters). Unfortunately even when you have the correct font, the arabic is displayed in unconnected and inverted form.

 

I am just finishing modifications to iText to get it to

perform these tasks. If you are interrest (still beta) email me at hani@kylietech.com and I will send more details.

 

 

 

 

By: Hani Naguib - haninaguib

RE: How to display Arabic text?

2003-10-16 16:07

Ups, I take that back iText does have support for Arabic. You still need to embedded fonts, but it is capable of dealing with arabic characters (connecting etc..). I have not had time to see how this is achieved and why iReport and/or Jasper Reports does not seem to use this capability.

[satishmhiremath]

After all workarounds, i am able to fix this issue in Jasper ireport as follows

In Text Properties :

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 

 

Regards,

Satish M Hiremath

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

satishmhiremath@gmail.com