Ukraine (Cyrillic) characters not displaying in Jasper Report PDF

Question

I am trying to display ukranian character in jasper report as a pdf file. but it is not diaplaying in pdf format.

when I export report to all other format like html, csv..ukranian char is displaying.

Cryogen

Do the fonts used for export have the characters necessary? I'm not sure what method Jasper Report uses, but the PDF file usually contains the font used for generating it - which means that font must support international characters. – Crosspatch

maryniuk.blogspot.com/2010/09/… this helped me – Smallsword

Answer 1

Set some text field properties at iReport. Use font DejaVu Sans. Set pdf encoding to Cp1251 and isPdfEmbedded to true.

Ex.: <font fontName="DejaVu Sans" isStrikeThrough="false" pdfEncoding="Cp1251" isPdfEmbedded="true" />

jasperreports fonts as maven dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>net.sf.jasperreports</groupId>
    <artifactId>jasperreports-fonts</artifactId>
</dependency>

Barham

3 years later... pdfEncoding is deprecated however jasperreports-fonts uses font-extensions if you like to use your own font, see #34042119 for font-extension example. – Ligurian

Answer 2

First, make sure you have the right encoding:

JRPdfExporter exporter = new JRPdfExporter();
exporter.setParameter(JRExporterParameter.CHARACTER_ENCODING, "UTF-8");

Then you should change the fonts to ones that support cyrillic. This is done via styles:

public void addPdfFontsToStyles(JRStyle[] styles) {
    if (styles != null) {
        for (JRStyle style : styles) {
            if (style.getName().equals("reportStyle")) {
                style.setPdfFontName("/com/yourcompany/fonts/times.ttf");
                style.setBlankWhenNull(true);
            }

            if (style.getName().equals("reportBoldStyle")) {
                style.setPdfFontName("/com/yourcompany/fonts/timesbd.ttf");
                style.setBlankWhenNull(true);
            }

        }
    }
}

And invoke this method with addPdfFontsToStyles(jasperReport.getStyles());

Of course, the prerequisites are:

• your text is using one of the above style names
• you have the ttf files on the classpath

That should do it (I'm taking the code from a working cyrilic application)

Illtimed

Answer 3

1. register font in JVM

   Font myFont = Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT, new File("pathToCyrillicFont"));
   GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment().registerFont(myFont); 
   

2. add to Cyrillic field this:

   <textElement>
      <font
                     fontName="fontName"
                     pdfFontName="pathToCyrillicFont"
                     size="13"
                     isBold="false"
                     isItalic="false"
                     isUnderline="false"
                     isPdfEmbedded ="true"
                     pdfEncoding ="Cp1251"
                     isStrikeThrough="false"
      /> 
    </textElement>
   

Enjoy!

Diapositive

Answer 4

Since jasper report v5, v6 the correct way to display characters in pdf is to use font-extension

For more information see these question on stackoverflow:

Jasper Reports PDF doesn't export cyrillic values

How can I display "$£Ω€απ⅔" in Jasperserver PDF using iReport?

Ligurian

Answer 5

just stumbled over this, the solution for me was to add the font-resource on the server. Go to you report -> edit -> add Resources

Ultranationalism