How to define a default font to create a PDF with a PdfPTable and the PdfAWriter class from iText 5.3.3 library
fonts, itext, pdfptable
Solution
There are different errors in your code, and the font isn't the biggest problem.
I copy/pasted your code as good as possible: http://itextsupport.com/files/stackoverflow/PdfATest.java
- I had to change the font because I don't have NewYorker.ttf on my PC.
- I didn't embed the complete font; that seemed like overkill.
- I added a line to create the XMP data (this is mandatory in PDF/A).
- I added a color profile (also mandatory; I chose sRGB).
I ran the code and it didn't throw any exception. You can check the result for yourself: http://itextsupport.com/files/stackoverflow/pdfa.pdf
Of course: don't trust Adobe Reader if you see a blue bar saying this is PDF/A1b. You need to check the conformance in a Preflight tool as is done in the image shown below:
My guess:
- Maybe your assumption that "new yorker" is the actual PostScript name of the font is wrong.
- Why are you using "UTF-8" as encoding. The documentation clearly says you need to use Identity-H if you want to use Unicode.
I can't reproduce your problem, so I suggest you try running my code.
Problem
I'm working with the library iText 5.3.3 and i wan't to create a PDF with the class PdfAWriter which needs to specify which compliancelevel must be respected. I wan't to add a PdfPTable to my document but i don't manage to do it cause of this error : "All the fonts must be embedded. This one isn't: Helvetica". I think that this problem is due to the fact that we have to embed the fonts we use when we want to make PDF with PDFAConformanceLevel ; and it's what i did but in some case it seems that a default font is used : Helvetica, and this default font is not embedded and cannot be embedded ! This happen when we add new lines, empty lines, new page, or when we work with elements like PdfPTable. I think it must be a way to define the default font to use when we work with elements like PdfPTable ; i heard that someone manage to do this by defining a new Chunk constructor, but i don't know how to do.... Some one has an idea ? Here you can find my code... i have simplified it for the purpose : I define 2 embedded fonts with this code : ``` FontFactory.register("c:/NewYorker.ttf"); baseFont = (FontFactory.getFont("new yorker","UTF-8",BaseFont.EMBEDDED)).getBaseFont(); baseFont.setSubset(true); BOLD = new Font(timesbd, 12); NORMAL = new Font(times, 12); ``` And i use these fonts to add 3 paragraphs in 3 cells to put in one table : ``` Document document = new Document(); PdfAWriter writer = PdfAWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(filename), PdfAConformanceLevel.PDF_A_1B); document.open(); float[] columnWidths = { 3.5f, 4.5f, 2.8f }; PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(columnWidths); PdfPCell defaultCell = table.getDefaultCell(); defaultCell.setPhrase(new Phrase("",NORMAL)); table.setWidthPercentage(90); table.setHorizontalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_RIGHT); PdfPCell cell1 = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("test 1",BOLD)); PdfPCell cell2 = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("test 2",NORMAL)); PdfPCell cell3 = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("test 3",NORMAL)); cell1.setBorder(0); cell2.setBorder(0); cell3.setBorder(0); cell1.setIndent(27); cell2.setIndent(27); cell3.setIndent(27); cell1.setLeading(4.5f, 1); cell2.setLeading(4.5f, 1); cell3.setLeading(4.5f, 1); table.addCell(cell1); table.addCell(cell2); table.addCell(cell3); document.add(table); document.close(); ``` And i have this stack when i execute my code : ``` Exception in thread "main" com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException: com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfAConformanceException: All the fonts must be embedded. This one isn't: Helvetica at com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfDocument.add(PdfDocument.java:708) at com.itextpdf.text.Document.add(Document.java:260) at test.MainClass.createPdfA(MainClass.java:163) at test.MainClass.main(MainClass.java:68) ```