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

Question

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 letter

Answer 1

Actually the problem could lead to the way you create the font. Instead of passing "UTF-8" as codepage try to use "CP1253".

BaseFont bfTimes = BaseFont.createFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA,"CP1253", BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
Font times = new Font(bfTimes, 12, Font.BOLD);

Btw, BaseFont has static string constnts for CP1250, CP1252 and CP1257...