Flying Saucer iTextPDF Chinese Fonts

Question

I'm using FlyingSaucer (R8pre2 version) to convert an XHTML into PDF.

The HTML has Chinese characters and are using MS Mincho fonts.

The document was converted, but all the Chinese characters are missing on the converted PDF.

Any idea how to resolve this problem?

Code:

OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream("output.pdf");
String inputFile = "input.html";
String url = new File(inputFile).toURI().toURL().toString();
ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer();
renderer.setDocument(url);
renderer.layout();
renderer.createPDF(os);
os.close();

Please see the updated question with the code to convert the XHTML into PDF — Christopher Guray, May 29 '13 at 09:37
I didn't see you load fonts. Load Chinese fonts & ensure contents are in UTF-8. Similar case: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10231194/encoding-issue-while-generating-pdf-file-from-html-using-itextrenderer — Raptor, May 29 '13 at 09:51
I see. Chinese characters are now displayed on the generated PDF after loading the necessary fonts. Thanks :) — Christopher Guray, May 29 '13 at 10:05

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 29 '13 at 10:08

Chinese font is required to be loaded before Chinese font is displayed. For example:

renderer.getFontResolver().addFont("fonts/TIMES.TTF", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
renderer.getFontResolver().addFont("fonts/TIMESBD.TTF", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
renderer.getFontResolver().addFont("fonts/TIMESBI.TTF", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
renderer.getFontResolver().addFont("fonts/TIMESI.TTF", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);

Flying Saucer iTextPDF Chinese Fonts

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