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swapnil chandankar
swapnil chandankar

Reputation: 87

How can i create iTextSharp pdf in Hindi font?

I am trying to build desktop application for Hindi PDFs in c#. But the Unicode encoding is not well supported.Any idea to fix this.

string ARIALUNI_TTF = path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Fonts), "ARIALUNI.TTF");

bf = iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont.CreateFont(ARIALUNI_TTF, BaseFont.IDENTITY_H,BaseFont.EMBEDDED);

iTextSharp.text.Font font = new iTextSharp.text.Font(bf, 8, iTextSharp.text.Font.NORMAL);

Can Identity_H will give support for Hindi Encoding?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2997

Answers (2)

Paulo Soares
Paulo Soares

Reputation: 1916

Hindi is not supported yet. A font like mangal.ttf, that supports the Devanagari script, will show you in iTextSharp the glyphs but not the ligatures. Work is being done on the Indic front not only for Hindi support but also for Telegu, Gujarati and others.

Upvotes: 3

CuriousMind
CuriousMind

Reputation: 3173

You basically require support for Asian Characters. A similar thread can be found here(stackoverflow). The implementation revolve around usage of BaseFont (use createFont method), which indicates using font and appropriate encoding. You can find the example on the official site of iText here. Note that the example is in Java, but the same implementation is available in .Net as well.

Upvotes: 0

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