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Reputation: 379

Display greek letters in jasperreports with JrxmlDatasource

I am trying to display greek letters in PDF generated by jasperreport. First I create XML, then xml datasource and pass it to jaspper. XML:

     Document doc = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder().newDocument();
   ....
   Element analysisElement = doc.createElement("Analysis");

   //text value is from the database 
   Text analysisText = doc.createTextNode(anayisisObject.getName());
   analysisElement.appendChild(analysisText);

Datasource:

JRXmlDataSource xmlDataSource = new JRXmlDataSource(doc,"/ReportFailedAnalysis");

JRXML textField:

 <textField isStretchWithOverflow="true">
   <reportElement style="obicni" positionType="Float" x="0" y="0" width="203" height="12"/>
     <textElement markup="styled">
        <font fontName="Arial" size="9" pdfEncoding="Cp1250"/>
     </textElement>
     <textFieldExpression class="java.lang.String"><![CDATA[$F{Analysis}]]>  
     </textFieldExpression>
    </textField>

Database encoding is Cp1250 if that is important and greek letters are saved as html encoding for example &#x393;. If I just pass that value, xml probably alter & to &amp, and i get Γ in my pdf. If I replace it with utf character \u03C6, I get "?" in my PDF. I know there is a way to display that field becaise when I export XML to file, change character from &amp;#x393; back to &#x393; , import it as a datasource in iReport, I get the letter I wantad.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1653

Answers (1)

Mag
Mag

Reputation: 379

After some reasearch I have discovered that PDF fonts are the cause of the problem. I have been using version 3.6, so i switched to version 3.7, to be able to embed fonts in PDF and used the method described on the blog: Link. I have used solution number 2(the easy way), but be sure to check solution number 1 in order to chose right fonts for bold, italic etc. Arial font was quite enough for me.

Upvotes: 1

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