Cyrillic letters not displaying in PDF generated with iText in Android

Question

I am tring to generate a PDF in my android application. I use iText and it generates PDF but only letters in english are shown. I found example code for iText working with unico

Answer 1

It also depends on the font you use, if the font you use does not support Cyrillic letters, Cyrillic letters will not appear. For example: If you use the font google google_regular.ttf then the Cyrillic letters will not appear in the pdf file

Answer 2

I used

BaseFont bfComic = BaseFont.createFont("/system/fonts/Comic.ttf", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);

and it works. You should check the fonts directory on your Android device to make sure.

For Chinese characters I used

BaseFont bfSans = BaseFont.createFont("/system/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);

Make sure you provide a fallback font in the catch() block, for example:

font = new Font(Font.FontFamily.HELVETICA, 24, Font.NORMAL, BaseColor.BLACK);

Please let me know if there is a standard way to get the path of the fonts folder.