Flying Saucer font for unicode characters

Question

I am generating PDF using Grails export plugin (basically, Flying Saucer). My GSP page is an UTF-8 page (or at least properties are showing that it is UTF-8, also in the beg

Answer 1

For some reason it started working with following css and .ttf file, which was generated by face-kit-generator:

@font-face {
    src: url('arialuni.ttf');
    -fs-pdf-font-embed: embed;
    -fs-pdf-font-encoding: Identity-H;
}

body {
    font-family: Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode, Arial, verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 8.8pt;
}

Weird thing is that if I put font into some folder, let say "fonts", it will find the font but characters won't be rendered.

Answer 2

I managed to "enable" unicode characters (cyrillic or czech) within java code and furthermore providing a true type font in my resources (CALIBRI.TTF).

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.xhtmlrenderer.pdf.ITextRenderer;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.BaseFont; 

...
    ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer();
    URL fontResourceURL = getClass().getResource("fonts/CALIBRI.TTF");
    //System.out.println("font-path:"+fontResourceURL.getPath());

    /* HERE comes my solution: */
    renderer.getFontResolver().addFont(fontResourceURL.getPath(), 
                BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);

    renderer.setDocument(doc, null);
    renderer.layout();
    baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    renderer.createPDF(baos);
    baos.flush();
    result = baos.toByteArray();
...

Finally I added the font-family 'Calibri' to the css section of my document:

...
<style type="text/css">
    span { font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; }
...