How to display Arabic strings from RTL in PDF generated using itext 7 API?

Question

I\'m struggling with this problem for hours now but I can\'t find a way out, the problem is that:

I wrote a program that generate a pdf file using itext version 7 (a

Answer 1

Step 1: load pdfCalligraph and licensekey jars into your classpath

Step 2: load license key from xml file:

LicenseKey.loadLicenseFile("itextkey-typography.xml");

Step 3: Create your Document as usual:

Document document = new Document(new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter(outFileName)));

PdfFont bf = PdfFontFactory.createFont(ARABIC_FONT, PdfEncodings.IDENTITY_H);
document.setFont(bf);

document.add(new Paragraph(ARABIC_TEXT).setTextAlignment(TextAlignment.RIGHT));

document.close();