Issue with eastern europe special characters [ CC Anti-Virus checked ]

[Bruno Lowagie <bruno (at) lowagie.com>]

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Lillo_Arnone (at) Computacenter.com wrote:

> We are using your pdf classes to generate pdf documents with Java from 
> a Lotus Notes database.

OK.

> We have now an issue with the special eastern european characters like:

You do know that the standard Type1 fonts (aka Base14 fonts)
only have a limited characterset, not including special characters
such as some Eastern European characters?

> In the generated PDF documents, we don't see those characters when used.

What font are you using, and did you embed the font?

> In our code, we use the paragraph object to hold the content coming 
> from the Lotus Notes database to write to the pdf document.

Nice!

> Do you know what we can do or what we are doing wrong to be able to 
> handle such characters?

While I was writing the book on iText, I discovered the tutorial
wasn't entirely correct, but you could have a look at the examples
to see how to use another font:
http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/tutorial/fonts/getting/index.html#files
Make sure the font has the Eastern European characters...

br,
Bruno

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