FlyingSaucer LTR/RTL/BiDi issue with arabic text

Question

I\'m using flying saucer xhtmlrenderer for building pdf documents. Everything worked fine until now - now we should generate arabic text inside pdf. Xhtmlrenderer is rendering A

Answer 1

Same issue I was facing, only solution i can find out was using arial fonts import/add arial.ttf and arialbold.ttf files in resources folder of your project.

            OutputStream outputStream = response.getOutputStream();
        ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer();
        // renderer.getFontResolver().addFont("/fonts/arialbold.ttf",
        // BaseFont.IDENTITY_H,BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
        renderer.getFontResolver().addFont("/fonts/arial.ttf", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
        renderer.getFontResolver().addFont("/fonts/arialbold.ttf", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);

        // SharedContext sharedContext = renderer.getSharedContext();
        // sharedContext.setPrint(true);
        // sharedContext.setInteractive(false);
        // sharedContext.setReplacedElementFactory(new B64ImgReplacedElementFactory());
        // sharedContext.getTextRenderer().setSmoothingThreshold(0);

        renderer.setDocumentFromString(content);
        renderer.layout();
        renderer.createPDF(outputStream);
        renderer.finishPDF();
        outputStream.close();

in your css use

html, body {
 margin: 0;
 padding: 0;
 font-family: Arial, Arial Bold;
 font-size: 10px;
 line-height: 14px;
}