Unicode(Maori Macrons) issue with PDF

You have load the font from the iReport menu Options->ReloadFonts. I hope u have selected the font from the list and not just entered over there.

That file should be classpath. You are using jasperserver. Pleae check if they have a fonts folder like iReport for the font location and then restart jasperserver. That is the only problem buddy. My solution is the only one which will work.

Can you send me your Jrxml ? I am not sure if you have attached it earlier. Pickup that ttf file from the windows folder and put it in the jar which needs to be in the classpath.

I'll try to explain our current setup here:::

1) The jasperserver install has a fonts forlder - c:\program files\jasperserver-2.0.1\ireport\fonts and i've added arial.ttf and ARIALUNI.TTF into this folder.

2) I have a Tomcat Base that has the jasperserver.war deployed on it at c:\tomcal-base-nzls-jasper\webapps

3) The WEB-INF in c:\tomcal-base-nzls-jasper\webapps\jasperserver has pdffontbeans.xml, wherein, i've added entries for the fonts as below::::

i've commented out the fonts as I was not sure if this was needed here.

4) when I try to run the report in JRViewer, the Maori Macrons displays - see anapshot attached.

5) when i export this report to PDF by clicking the PDF icon in the snapshot, or through the application that reads the pdf, it throws the following error.

Error Trace:  
net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRRuntimeException: Could not load the following font : pdfFontName : ARIALUNI.TTF pdfEncoding : Identity-H isPdfEmbedded : true
net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRRuntimeException: Could not load the following font :
pdfFontName   : ARIALUNI.TTF
pdfEncoding   : Identity-H
isPdfEmbedded : true
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.getFont(JRPdfExporter.java:1551)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.getChunk(JRPdfExporter.java:1454)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.getPhrase(JRPdfExporter.java:1437)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.exportText(JRPdfExporter.java:1794)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.exportElements(JRPdfExporter.java:632)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.exportPage(JRPdfExporter.java:596)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.exportReportToStream(JRPdfExporter.java:539)
    at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.exportReport(JRPdfExporter.java:313)
    at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.engine.jasperreports.service.impl.EngineServiceImpl.exportToPdf(EngineServiceImpl.java:275)
    at com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.war.action.ReportPdfExporter.export(ReportPdfExporter.java:63)

 
 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
       xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-2.0.xsd">
 
    <!-- parent map -->
    <!--
        This is the map containing localized font maps.
        Keys are Strings representing the language hold by the session context's Locale object.
        Values are font maps.
        Please feel free to uncomment, add simmilar elements, or modify the commented entries below.
     -->
 
    <util:map id="localePdfFontMap">
     <!--
        <entry key="en" value-ref="enPdfFontMap"/>
        <entry key="ja_JP" value-ref="jaJpPdfFontMap"/>
    -->
    </util:map>
 
    <!-- end parent map -->
 
    <!-- localized font maps -->
    <!--
        Font maps are maps with specific structure:
        Keys are FontKey objects; values are PdfFont objects.
     -->
 
    <!--
    <util:map id="enPdfFontMap">
        <entry key-ref="enArialFontKey" value-ref="enArialPdfFont"/>
        <entry key-ref="enArialUniFontKey" value-ref="enArialUniPdfFont"/>
    </util:map>   
 
    <util:map id="jaJpPdfFontMap">
        <entry key-ref="jaJpArialFontKey" value-ref="jaJpArialPdfFont"/>
        <entry key-ref="jaJpArialUniFontKey" value-ref="jaJpArialUniPdfFont"/>
    </util:map>   
    -->
    <!-- end localized font maps -->
 
    <!-- localized font keys -->
    <!--
    <bean id="enArialFontKey" class="net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.FontKey">
        <constructor-arg index="0" value="Arial"/>
        <constructor-arg index="1" value="false"/>
        <constructor-arg index="2" value="false"/>
    </bean>
 
    <bean id="enArialUniFontKey" class="net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.FontKey">
        <constructor-arg index="0" value="Arial Unicode MS"/>
        <constructor-arg index="1" value="false"/>
        <constructor-arg index="2" value="false"/>
    </bean>
    <bean id="jaJpArialFontKey" class="net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.FontKey">
        <constructor-arg index="0" value="Arial"/>
        <constructor-arg index="1" value="false"/>
        <constructor-arg index="2" value="false"/>
    </bean>
 
    <bean id="jaJpArialUniFontKey" class="net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.FontKey">
        <constructor-arg index="0" value="Arial Unicode MS"/>
        <constructor-arg index="1" value="false"/>
        <constructor-arg index="2" value="false"/>
    </bean>
    -->
    <!-- end localized font keys -->
 
    <!-- localized pdf fonts -->
    <!--
        The best practice is to save first the desired pdfFont in the repository,
        and then to reference it in the 0-index constructor argument.
        Another way, less safer is to save the .TTF object on your disk, and store its
        absolute path in the 0-index constructor argument.
     -->
    <!--     
    <bean id="enArialPdfFont" class="net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.PdfFont">
        <constructor-arg index="0" value="repo:/fonts/arial.ttf"/>
        <constructor-arg index="1" value="Identity-H"/>
        <constructor-arg index="2" value="false"/>
        <constructor-arg index="3" value="false"/>
        <constructor-arg index="4" value="false"/>
    </bean>
 
    <bean id="enArialUniPdfFont" class="net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.PdfFont">
        <constructor-arg index="0" value="repo:/fonts/ARIALUNI.TTF"/>
        <constructor-arg index="1" value="Identity-H"/>
        <constructor-arg index="2" value="true"/>
        <constructor-arg index="3" value="false"/>
        <constructor-arg index="4" value="false"/>
    </bean>
 
    <bean id="jaJpArialPdfFont" class="net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.PdfFont">
        <constructor-arg index="0" value="../fonts/ARIAL.TTF"/>
        <constructor-arg index="1" value="Identity-H"/>
        <constructor-arg index="2" value="false"/>
        <constructor-arg index="3" value="false"/>
        <constructor-arg index="4" value="false"/>
    </bean>
 
    <bean id="jaJpArialUniPdfFont" class="net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.PdfFont">
        <constructor-arg index="0" value="repo:/fonts/ARIALUNI.TTF"/>
        <constructor-arg index="1" value="Identity-H"/>
        <constructor-arg index="2" value="true"/>
    </bean>
    -->
    <!-- end localized pdf fonts -->
 
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as i've stated in my previous post, I had it uncommented but it did not work and hence I commented it.  but in any case, will try again and I had tried with the absolute path as well for the font TTF files in the XML.

there is something else missing here....dunno what though....

Project owner???? can you help?

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I've got it to export into PDF(from the Web Interface of JasperServer) - that is, from the JRViewer. I can run the report in JRViewer and then export to PDF using the "PDF link".

Now, I try to run the same report via my application - this throws a similar exception now -

Could not load the following font :

pdfFontName   : ARIALUNI.TTF
pdfEncoding   : Identity-H
isPdfEmbedded : true

To get this to work in JRViewer, I had loaded the fonts ARIALUNI.TTF, arial.ttf in to the "iReport\Fonts" folder under the JasperServer install folder. This means that the Jasper Server now packages the font into the PDF export. Are there any other settings I need to do for this to work with my application. Since my application is just using the JasperServer API to get JasperPrint pbjects, I thought that it should work on its own if it wokrd on JasperServer. But thats not the case.

I'm lost !!!

in my application, i use jasperreports2.0.1.jar, JasperReports API, and this JAR needs to have the font in it somewhere for it to export the file to PDF from the raw stream that it recieves from the JasperServer webservice call.

I was looking into the API and found the following - JRProperties point to net.sf.jasperreports.export.pdf.font for PDF fonts, but i'm unable to find that path in the jar. I'll try and add these folder manually into the exploded jar and see if it works.

cheers

Hi,

I would only point out that Arian Unicode MS is a font that comes only with Windows East Asia font pack.

People running the reports on Linux could not use the settings you provided. The would have to take the ARIANUNI.TTF from the web or a windows installation and wrap it inside a JasperReports font extension JAR file that they would then add to their application classpath, basically shipping the font with their reports.

You can see how to create a JasperReports font extension by looking at the contents of the /demo/fonts folder of the JR project.

I hope this helps.
Teodor