PDF Arabic Font Italicizing problem.

[goyal_1985]

Hi, 

I have a report which has Arabic text. some of which is arabic. 

Using iReport 3.0.0, the non-italicized arabic text displays correctly with iReport font as "Sans Serif" and PDF font as arial and PDF-Encoding as "Unicode with Horizontal Writing", But when I change it to italics, the text is not displayed. (For italic text I tried with both arial.ttf and Ariali.ttf).

Using the latest iReport 4.0.2 also, I am facing the same problem. Here, I am using the PDF font as Helvetica-Oblique and encoding as CP1252, however, for non-italicized, it displayes the text, for italic text, it does not.

I tried with the "Fonts" and "unicode" demo, but whenever I made the text italic, it stops to be displayed.

Please help.

 

[szaharia]

Hi,

Try to use a dedicated TTF for Arabic text. Arial seems unable to render italicized Arabic chars.

HTH,

sanda

[goyal_1985]

Hi Sanda,

Thanks for replying, However, I have tried using the arabic fonts also. But using them, I am not even able to print the normal text. I am using arabic unicode fonts with pdf encoding as Unicode with Horizontal Writing. Could you please suggest some other solution?

 

Thanks,

Dishank

[szaharia]

Hi Dishank,

Try with pdfEncoding="Identity-H" and a dedicated TTF file, such as artro.ttf, or, recommended, an open source true type font.

HTH,

sanda

[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 : ../arialbd.ttf (ARIAL BOLD)

Pdf Embedded : true

Pdf Encoding : Identity-H

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In your Project META-INF folder

Create and Add reports folder containing arialbd.ttf(BOLD) files and fonts.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