Font mapping problem

Well,

I have a project to print reports using jasper.

I need to print various reports with different fonts.

Then, I mapped my project with some fonts and his respective tff files.

I have at the moment this:

In the source package the jasperreports_extensions.properties file with the following items:
net.sf.jasperreports.extension.registry.factory.fonts=net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fonts.SimpleFontExtensionsRegistryFactory
net.sf.jasperreports.extension.fonts.spring.beans.resource=fonts/fonts.xml

And the fonts folder with the tff files and the fonts.xml.

The fonts.xml has the following code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd">

    <bean id="arial" class="net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fonts.SimpleFontFamily">
        <property name="name" value="Arial"/>
        <property name="normal" value="arial.ttf"/>
        <property name="bold" value="arialbd.ttf"/>
        <property name="italic" value="ariali.ttf"/>
        <property name="boldItalic" value="arialbi.ttf"/>
        <property name="pdfEncoding" value="Cp1252"/>
        <property name="pdfEmbedded" value="true"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="times" class="net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fonts.SimpleFontFamily">
        <property name="name" value="Times New Roman"/>
        <property name="normal" value="times.ttf"/>
        <property name="bold" value="timesbd.ttf"/>
        <property name="italic" value="timesi.ttf"/>
        <property name="boldItalic" value="timesbi.ttf"/>
        <property name="pdfEncoding" value="Cp1252"/>
        <property name="pdfEmbedded" value="true"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="verdana" class="net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fonts.SimpleFontFamily">
        <property name="name" value="Verdana"/>
        <property name="normal" value="verdana.ttf"/>
        <property name="bold" value="verdanab.ttf"/>
        <property name="italic" value="verdanai.ttf"/>
        <property name="boldItalic" value="verdanaz.ttf"/>
        <property name="pdfEncoding" value="Cp1252"/>
        <property name="pdfEmbedded" value="true"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="tahoma" class="net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fonts.SimpleFontFamily">
        <property name="name" value="Tahoma"/>
        <property name="normal" value="tahoma.ttf"/>
        <property name="bold" value="tahomabd.ttf"/>
        <property name="pdfEncoding" value="Cp1252"/>
        <property name="pdfEmbedded" value="true"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="Courier New" class="net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fonts.SimpleFontFamily">
        <property name="name" value="Courier New"/>
        <property name="normal" value="cour.ttf"/>
        <property name="bold" value="courbd.ttf"/>
        <property name="italic" value="couri.ttf"/>
        <property name="boldItalic" value="courbi.ttf"/>
        <property name="pdfEncoding" value="Cp1252"/>
        <property name="pdfEmbedded" value="true"/>
    </bean>
</beans>

And then, I have a report with a textField font property set to "Courier New".
My generated PDF show the text in the textField with Arial, not the "Courier New" font.

That's my problem.

Up.

Hi tinti,

I think your problem is that not all of the font types are supported by pdf files. If you open iReport and try to define the "Properties" of a field, you can check that thereare two different properties for the font: 

• "Font Name"
• "Pdf Font Name"

The "Courier New" font is not in the possible font types of "Pdf Font Name", so I guess it is setting Arial by default. So, you must first check the font types you can use in Pdf format and then decide which ones are you going to use.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Aitor

Hi,



How did you package up your font extension? In a separate JAR?

If so, can you post here the structure of your JAR, with the files inside it?



Also, can you attach here the JRXML and maybe a copy of the resulting PDF file?



It could be that for some text fields, you have values for the now deprecated pdfFontName attribute.



Thanks,

Teodor

I tried to use that way.

JRXML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-2"?>
<jasperReport xmlns="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/xsd/jasperreport.xsd" name="ReportBase02" pageWidth="595" pageHeight="842" columnWidth="555" leftMargin="20" rightMargin="20" topMargin="20" bottomMargin="20">
    <property name="ireport.callouts" value="##Tue Jan 04 09:23:21 BRST 2011"/>
    <property name="ireport.zoom" value="1.0"/>
    <property name="ireport.x" value="0"/>
    <property name="ireport.y" value="0"/>
    <queryString>
        <![CDATA[select 1 from dual]]>
    </queryString>
    <detail>
        <band height="134" splitType="Stretch">
            <textField>
                <reportElement x="0" y="0" width="555" height="33"/>
                <textElement>
                    <font size="20" pdfFontName="Base02" isPdfEmbedded="true" pdfEncoding="ISO-8859-1"/>
                </textElement>
                <textFieldExpression class="java.lang.String"><![CDATA["Do or do not, there is no try"]]></textFieldExpression>
            </textField>
            <textField>
                <reportElement x="0" y="113" width="555" height="21"/>
                <textElement>
                    <font size="12" pdfFontName="Base02" isPdfEmbedded="true" pdfEncoding="ISO-8859-1"/>
                </textElement>
                <textFieldExpression class="java.lang.String"><![CDATA["A morte de uma pessoa é tragédia, a de milhões é estatística"]]></textFieldExpression>
            </textField>
        </band>
    </detail>
</jasperReport>
 

jasperreports.properties
net.sf.jasperreports.export.pdf.font.Base02=/fonts/cour.ttf

I exported to pdf, and the pdf is ok.

But, i'm working with Portuguese/Brazil, and the accentuation don't worked.

What is wrong?

Hi,

I don't see any of the fonts from your font extension being used in this report. You make use of the now deprecated pdfFontName attribute.

You should use ONLY the fontName attribute and give it as value one of the font family names you said you've been created such as fontName="Courier New".

Make sure your font extension JAR is in the classpath when you run your reports.

What you have done with Base02 in jasperreports.properties is a deprecated technique as well.

I hope this helps.

Teodor

OK, so, i need to put the ttf files in a jar, and load to classpath.

And use just the font name?

I do not need to map the font name anywhere?

Like the samples in the jasperreports-3.7.6-project?

Edit:

My last post is a different project from the first post.

I'm not using nothing i showed from the first post.

My project from the first post just not work, so i did another project, from my last post, and then the fonts problem was solved, but the accentuation dont worked.

Hi,

If you still experience some problems with some characters, you have to give us the exact details of the current situation.

It is no longer clear what you did in the first post and then after the last post and so on...

Do a recap and explain exactly what you are doing now and what does not work.

Thanks,

Teodor