Creating fonts from *.ttf files using iText

Question

This is a method inside my Resources.class:

public static Font loadFont(String fontFileName)
    {
        BaseFont base = null;

        try
        {
                  


        

Answer 1

Try to create an embedded font object and use this font to render your text:

//this code should run once at initialization/application startup
FontFactory.register("resources/wingding_font.ttf");
Font textFont = FontFactory.getFont("wingding", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, 
    BaseFont.EMBEDDED, 10); //10 is the size
...
//reuse the reference to the font object when rendering your text
Paragraph p = new Paragraph("someText", textFont);

By the way, iText has the FontFactory class to help load your fonts, you don't need anymore the loadFont method in your Resources.

Hope it helps.