Why is the Gujarati-Indian text not rendered correctly using Arial Unicode MS?

Question

This is a follow-up on this question How to export fonts in Gujarati-Indian Language to pdf?, @amedee-van-gasse, QA Engineer at iText asked me to post a question specifi

Answer 1

Neither iText5 nor iText2 (which is a very outdated version by the way) support rendering of Indic scripts, no matter which font you select.

Rendering Indic scripts is not similar to any Latin scripts, because a long series of additional actions should be taken to get the correct result, e.g. some characters need to be reordered first according to the language rules.

This is a known issue to iText company.

There is a stub implementation for Gujaranti in iText5 called GujaratiLigaturizer, but the implementation is really poor and you cannot expect to get correct results with it.

You can try to process your string with this ligaturizer and then output the resultant string in the following way:

IndicLigaturizer g = new GujaratiLigaturizer();
String processed = g.process(inputString);
// proceed with the processed string

Answer 2

Build your application using latest typography jar file that Will solve your problem of Gujarati font rendering in pdf In itext.