itext PDF - Greek letters are not appearing in the resulting PDF document

Question

Hi All,

I am having hard time trying to generate PDF files containing Greek letters using itextpdf. I am reading the strings from an external source as UTF-8 strings. English letters appear in results but not the Greek ones. Searching for the problem, I think it might be related to the font used. I do not know what ttf file to use if this is the problem. Here is how am creating the font

BaseFont bfTimes = BaseFont.createFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA,"UTF-8", BaseFont.EMBEDDED); Font times = new Font(bfTimes, 12, Font.BOLD);

any help is heartily appreciated!

Answer 1

You need to use a font that has Greek characters in it. You may find Greek unicode fonts here.

You can check an example here on using unicode fonts from the author of itext.