How to render Asian characters in a PDF using xhtmlrenderer
- by Mark Derricutt
I was wondering what steps were needed to render Asian characters using the java based xhtmlrenderer (flying saucer) library?
I am wanting to render the following:
<html>
<body>????????</body>
</html>
Without any font settings being added to the HTML this renders fine in normal browsers, but I can't find anyway to render this to PDF using the iTextRenderer portion of xhtmlrenderer.
After following various threads on the mailing list, I see lots of posts talking about adding .TTF files from the c:\windows\fonts directory, and I have modified the examples to run on linux ( https://gist.github.com/643173745182c9becc57 ), which shows me various fonts being displayed, but I don't see any Asian glyffs.
Does anyone have any decent pointers, or clean solutions to this problem? Or am I looking at the wrong problem with a really simple solution elsewhere?
