I use iTextpdf on java in order to generate stamped PDFs, sometimes the generated PDF is in Arabic and I am facing a funny problem.
To let the Arabic page being created from Right To Left (RTL) I use tables and cells which have the property PdfPCell.setRunDirection(PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_RTL). When I use this property Arabic does not show at all, if I avoid the call to this property Arabic strings are correctly showed, this means I shouldn t have problems with fonts and I don t really know if this is an issue with iText or I m just missing something.
这里有一小部分的法典正确显示:
BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont(Application.getBASEPATH() + "fonts/arabic.ttf",BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
Font trebuchetSmaller = new Font(bf, 10, 0);
PdfPTable tbl = new PdfPTable(1);
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell();
Paragraph paragraph = new Paragraph();
paragraph.add(new Phrase("ربط صفحة على شبكة الإنترنت"), trebuchetSmaller));
cell.addElement(paragraph);
tbl.addCell(cell);
这里需要改变,使阿拉伯扼杀物消失:
BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont(Application.getBASEPATH() + "fonts/arabic.ttf",BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
Font trebuchetSmaller = new Font(bf, 10, 0);
PdfPTable tbl = new PdfPTable(1);
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell();
cell.setRunDirection(PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_RTL);
Paragraph paragraph = new Paragraph();
paragraph.add(new Phrase("ربط صفحة على شبكة الإنترنت"), trebuchetSmaller));
cell.addElement(paragraph);
tbl.addCell(cell);
If I use PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_RTL with an English string it shows correctly in the format it has supposed to be. If I use a string with mixed English and Arabic characters just the English ones are showed.