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I am using Jasper Report 6.9.0 version with Java 1.8.0_201 and Arial Unicode MS and NotoSerifCJKsc(especially for the traditional Chinese) fonts for the Jasper Report to display the Chinese Characters.

Pdf generated properly and I am able to see the complete content when I open it on the chrome, but if I try to open it with Acrobat reader then I am getting the error

"Cannot extract the embedded font 'PWLEAX+NotoSerifCJKsc-Regular-Identity-H'.

Some characters may not display or print correctly."

enter image description here Is there something that needs to be updated?

Alex K
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This is a most probably a problem of the old itext library that jasper reports are forced to use due to license issues.

If you check dependencies of Jasper Report 6.9.0 in fact you will find com.lowagie » itext 2.1.7.js6

From this post the developer Bruno Lowagie states:

[*] Update: this problem can be reproduced if you use iText 4.2.x, a version that was released by somebody unknown to iText Group NV. Please use iText versions higher than 5 only.

And you can also read more about a similar problem here, basically the pdf's font-extensions seem to be not generated correctly by this old version of itext library.

Solutions:

  1. Change font, try with another font.

or

  1. Change to jasper-reports version 6.0 interesting is that this version has the dependence to com.itextpdf » itextpdf 5.5.0 (for this version they somehow had a license to use a new version of itext)
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Petter Friberg
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A recent update to Adobe Reader introduced a change that caused Reader to start raising this error on PDF files produced by iText (and maybe other products).

Adobe just announced a new release of Reader that corrects this issue (19.012.20040).

See https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2645745

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