embed font into pdf using itextsharp
fonts, itext, pdf
Solution
When you use `IDENTITY_H` for an encoding iTextSharp automatically turns on font subsetting. Unfortunately there appears to still be a bug in that code. The solution for now is to just turn off subsetting for that font:
bfR = iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont.CreateFont(FontFile, iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont.EMBEDDED)
bfR.Subset = False
Problem
I am trying to embed a font using itextsharp 5.2.1.0, but am getting errors. the font is KozGoPro-Light.otf which after doing a bit of research is a japenese font. I have tried the following... ``` Dim tblx1 As PdfPTable = New PdfPTable(1) Dim tblrightcell_margin2 As PdfPCell Dim bfR As iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont **bfR = iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont.CreateFont("KozGoPro-Light.otf", iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont.EMBEDDED) fntKozgoProExtra = New Font(bfR, 18)** tblrightcell_margin2 = New PdfPCell(New Phrase("testing....", fntKozgoProExtra)) tblx1.AddCell(tblrightcell_margin2) ``` When i try add the font to a phrase, it will say Object reference not set to an instance of an object. If I change iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont.IDENTITY_H to CP1252 or any of those encodings it will just show incorrectly on the pdf. Any clues?