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

I used this code:

BaseFont fonty = BaseFont.createFont("assets/ARIALBD.TTF", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H,       BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
     fonty.setSubset(true);
     Phrase myName = new Phrase("Your Not Latin Words", new Font(fonty,12));
     ColumnText.showTextAligned(canvas,
             Element.ALIGN_LEFT, myName, 66, 400, 0);

i had to paste the ARIALBD.TTF to assets folder

Answer 2

You need to use a font that has Greek characters in it. You may find Greek unicode fonts here.

You can check an example here on using unicode fonts from the author of itext.

Answer 3

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...