Ahmad Mousa
Ahmad Mousa

Reputation: 33

How can I use the primefaces DataExporter to export PDFs with Arabic data

I'm using p:dataExporter to export the contents of my p:dataTable, which has Arabic content. When I export it as Excel it works fine, but if I try to export it as PDF, the Arabic content is not displayed. I'm using iText 2.1.7.

here is my p:dataTable with the p:dataExporter

<p:dataTable id="chequeReport_tbl" value="#{reportsController.listOfChequeReports}"  var="chequeReport"
                             paginator="true" editable="false" rows="10" 
                             tableStyle="width: auto;" style="direction: ltr; text-align: right;margin-top: 5px;margin-bottom:20px"
                             paginatorTemplate="{Exporters} {CurrentPageReport} {FirstPageLink} {PreviousPageLink} {PageLinks} {NextPageLink} {LastPageLink} {RowsPerPageDropdown}"
                             rowsPerPageTemplate="10">
                    <f:facet name="{Exporters}">
                        <div style="float:right;">
                            <h:commandLink actionListener="#{reportsController.generateBankChequeReportPDF()}">
                                <p:graphicImage value="res/images/pdf_2.png" width="12"/>
                            </h:commandLink>
                            <h:commandLink>
                                <p:graphicImage value="res/images/excel.png" width="24"/>
                                <p:dataExporter type="xls" target="chequeReport_tbl" fileName="chequeReport"/>
                            </h:commandLink>
                        </div>
                    </f:facet>
                    <p:column headerText="تاريخ الصرف" style="text-align: center">
                        <h:outputText value="#{chequeReport.exchangeDate}"/>
                    </p:column>
                    <p:column headerText="أسم المستفيد" style="text-align: center">
                        <h:outputText value="#{chequeReport.beneficiaryName}"/>
                    </p:column>
                    <p:column headerText="مبلغ الشيك بالدولار" style="text-align: center">
                        <h:outputText value="#{chequeReport.chequeAmountInDollar}"/>
                    </p:column>
                    <p:column headerText="العملة" style="text-align: center">
                        <h:outputText value="#{chequeReport.currency}"/>
                    </p:column>
                    <p:column headerText="قيمة الشيك" style="text-align: center">
                        <h:outputText value="#{chequeReport.chequeAmount}"/>
                    </p:column>
                    <p:column headerText="تاريخ الإصدار" style="text-align: center">
                        <h:outputText value="#{chequeReport.issuingDate}"/>
                    </p:column>
                    <p:column headerText="القطاع الإقتصادي" style="text-align: center">
                        <h:outputText value="#{chequeReport.financialDep}"/>
                    </p:column>
                    <p:column headerText="الفرع" style="text-align: center">
                        <h:outputText value="#{chequeReport.branch}"/>
                    </p:column>
                    <p:column headerText="رقم الحساب" style="text-align: center">
                        <h:outputText value="#{chequeReport.accountNumber}"/>
                    </p:column>
                    <p:column headerText="رقم الهوية" style="text-align: center">
                        <h:outputText value="#{chequeReport.idNumber}"/>
                    </p:column>
                    <p:column headerText="أسم العميل" style="text-align: center">
                        <h:outputText value="#{chequeReport.customerName}"/>
                    </p:column>
                </p:dataTable>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1337

Answers (1)

Kukeltje
Kukeltje

Reputation: 12337

Effectively, your question can be (and should have been) split in two questions, both of which have existing Q/A in stackoverflow.

Question 1: How do I display arabic in a PDF when using iText.
Answer 1:   How to display Arabic in PDF created using iText

Question 2: How do I customize the PrimeFaces dataExporter when exporting to PDF
Answer 2:  How do I customize the PDF from a PrimeFaces p:dataExporter, e.g. page size

Combine them and you have your solution.

Upvotes: 1

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