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Html to pdf Unicode chars not being displayed in pdfptable

I am writing a pdf file from html markup. In my code snippet the pdf is being successfully generated and the unicode characters are being also being rendered on the table.
Here is my code snippet:
void GeneratePdfFromHtml()
{
const string outputFilename = #"c:\report.pdf";
const string inputFilename = #"C:\report.html";
using (var input = new FileStream(inputFilename, FileMode.Open))
using (var output = new FileStream(outputFilename, FileMode.Create))
{
CreatePdf(input, output);
}
}
and this method creates pdf with unicode support:
void CreatePdf(Stream htmlInput, Stream pdfOutput)
{
using (var document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 30, 30, 30, 30))
{
var writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, pdfOutput);
var worker = XMLWorkerHelper.GetInstance();
document.Open();
worker.ParseXHtml(writer, document, htmlInput, null, Encoding.Unicode, new UnicodeFontFactory());
document.Close();
}
}
This is a helper class to provide required fonts:
public class UnicodeFontFactory : FontFactoryImp
{
private static readonly string FontPath = Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop),
"ARIALUNI.ttf");
private readonly BaseFont _baseFont;
public UnicodeFontFactory()
{
_baseFont = BaseFont.CreateFont(FontPath, BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
}
public override iTextSharp.text.Font GetFont(string fontname, string encoding, bool embedded, float size, int style, BaseColor color,
bool cached)
{
return new iTextSharp.text.Font(_baseFont, size, style, color);
}
}
Problem this draws the resultant contents on Pdf document page but I want this to be drawn in a pdfptable cell.
What I have tried to achieve this:
void CreatePdf(string htmltext)
{
using (var document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 30, 30, 30, 30))
{
document.Open();
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(1);
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell();
List<IElement> elementsIzv = XMLWorkerHelper.ParseToElementList(htmltext, null);
foreach (IElement e in elementsIzv)
{
cell.AddElement(e);
}
table.AddCell(cell);
document.Add(table);
document.Close();
}
}
This snippet truncates the Special Characters. Please direct me in the right way, Any replacement to itextsharp is also acceptable.

arabic encoding in itextsharp

When I'm trying this code to create a PDF in Arabic using C#, the generated PDF file contains discrete characters. Any help so I can't get continuous characters?
//Create our document object
Document Doc = new Document(PageSize.LETTER);
//Create our file stream
using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop), "Test.pdf"), FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.Read))
{
//Bind PDF writer to document and stream
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(Doc, fs);
//Open document for writing
Doc.Open();
//Add a page
Doc.NewPage();
//Full path to the Unicode Arial file
string ARIALUNI_TFF = Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Fonts), "arabtype.TTF");
//Create a base font object making sure to specify IDENTITY-H
BaseFont bf = BaseFont.CreateFont(ARIALUNI_TFF, BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
//Create a specific font object
iTextSharp.text.Font f = new iTextSharp.text.Font(bf, 12, iTextSharp.text.Font.NORMAL);
//Write some text, the last character is 0x0278 - LATIN SMALL LETTER PHI
Doc.Add(new Phrase("This is a ميسو ɸ", f));
//Write some more text, the last character is 0x0682 - ARABIC LETTER HAH WITH TWO DOTS VERTICAL ABOVE
Doc.Add(new Phrase("Hello\u0682", f));
//Close the PDF
Doc.Close();
}

Right-to-left writing and Arabic ligatures are only supported in ColumnText and PdfPTable!
Take a look at the following examples:
http://itextpdf.com/examples/iia.php?id=205 with result: say_peace.pdf
http://itextpdf.com/examples/iia.php?id=215 with result: peace.pdf
Read the book from which these examples are taken to find out why not all words are rendered correctly in peace.pdf
Search http://tinyurl.com/itextsharpIIA2C11 for the corresponding C# version of these examples.
In any case, you need a font that knows how to display Arabic glyphs:
BaseFont bf = BaseFont.CreateFont(ARIALUNI_TFF, BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
Font f = new Font(bf, 12);
You can now add Arabic text, for instance in a table:
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell();
cell.AddElement(new Phrase("Hello\u0682", f));
cell.RunDirection = PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_RTL;

ItextSharp doesn't display Japanese font

iTextSharp doesn't display Japanese font. I found a solution but when I compile, I get an error saying:
Font 'STSong-Light' with 'UniGB-UCS2-H' is not recognized.
Here's my source code:
BaseFont.AddToResourceSearch(serverPath + "\\lib\\iTextAsian.dll");
BaseFont.AddToResourceSearch(serverPath + "\\lib\\iTextAsianCmaps.dll");
BaseFont font = BaseFont.CreateFont("STSong-Light", "UniGB-UCS2-H", BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
using (Document document = new Document())
{
using (PdfSmartCopy copy = new PdfSmartCopy(
document, new FileStream(directoryOutPdf + nameOutPdf, FileMode.Create))
)
{
document.Open();
// generate one page per statement
for (int i = 0; i < countBlank.Count; i++)
{
// replace this with your PDF form template
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(pdfTemplatePath + #"\EmptyTemplateBankBlank_2012.pdf");
using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
{
using (PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, ms))
{
AcroFields form = stamper.AcroFields;
form.SetFieldProperty("Info", "textfont", font, null);
form.SetField("Info", "_源泉徴収票");
stamper.FormFlattening = true;
}
reader = new PdfReader(ms.ToArray());
copy.AddPage(copy.GetImportedPage(reader, 1));
}
}
}
}
I think it's because I didn't install the STSong-Light font. Unfortunately I could not find STSong-Light and, therefore, had to set Stsong font, but it still does not work.
String fontPath = Path.Combine(serverPath + "\\Fonts", "STSONG.ttf");
BaseFont baseFont = BaseFont.CreateFont(fontPath, "UniGB-UCS2-H", BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
Font font = new Font(baseFont, 12, Font.NORMAL);

Set the SubstitutionFont after creating the PdfStamper:
stamper.AcroFields.AddSubstitutionFont(myFont.BaseFont);

iTextSharp HTMLWorker ParseHTML Tablestyle and PDFStamper

Hi I have succesfully used a HTMLWorker to convert a gridview using asp.NET / C#.
(1) I have applied some limited style to the resulting table but cannot see how to apply tablestyle for instance grid lines or apply other formatting style such as a large column width for example for a particular column.
(2) I would actually like to put this text onto a pre-existing template which contains a logo etc. I've used PDF Stamper before for this but cannot see how I can use both PDFStamper and HTMLWorker at once. HTMLWorker needs a Document which implements iDocListener ... but that doesnt seem compatible with usign a PDFStamper. I guess what I am looking for is a way to create a PDFStamper, write title etc, then add the parsed HTML from the grid. The other problem is that the parsed content doesnt interact with the other stuff on the page. For instance below I add a title chunk to the page. Rather than starting below it, the parsed HTML writes over the top. How do I place / interact the parsed HTML content with the rest of what is on the PDF document ?
Thanks in advance
Rob
Here';s the code I have already
Document pdfDoc = new Document(PageSize.A4, 10f, 10f, 30f, 0f);
HTMLWorker htmlWorker = new HTMLWorker(pdfDoc);
StyleSheet styles = new StyleSheet();
styles.LoadTagStyle("th", "size", "12px");
styles.LoadTagStyle("th", "face", "helvetica");
styles.LoadTagStyle("span", "size", "10px");
styles.LoadTagStyle("span", "face", "helvetica");
styles.LoadTagStyle("td", "size", "10px");
styles.LoadTagStyle("td", "face", "helvetica");
htmlWorker.SetStyleSheet(styles);
PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfDoc, HttpContext.Current.Response.OutputStream);
pdfDoc.Open();
//Title - but this gets obsured by data, doesnt move it down
Font font = new Font(Font.FontFamily.HELVETICA, 14, Font.BOLD);
Chunk chunk = new Chunk(title, font);
pdfDoc.Add(chunk);
//Body
htmlWorker.Parse(sr);

Let me first give you a couple of links to look over when you get a chance:
ItextSharp support for HTML and CSS
How to apply font properties on while passing html to pdf using itextsharp
These answers go deeper into what's going on and I recommend reading them when you get a chance. Specifically the second one will show you why you need to use pt instead of px.
To answer your first question let me show you a different way to use the HTMLWorker class. This class has a static method on it called ParseToList that will convert HTML to a List<IElement>. The objects in that list are all iTextSharp specific versions of your HTML. Normally you would do a foreach on those and just add them to a document but you can modify them before adding which is what you want to do. Below is code that takes a static string and does that:
string file1 = Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop), "File1.pdf");
using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(file1, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.None))
{
using (Document doc = new Document(PageSize.LETTER))
{
using (PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, fs))
{
doc.Open();
//Our HTML
string html = "<table><tr><th>First Name</th><th>Last Name</th></tr><tr><td>Chris</td><td>Haas</td></tr></table>";
//ParseToList requires a StreamReader instead of just a string so just wrap it
using (StringReader sr = new StringReader(html))
{
//Create a style sheet
StyleSheet styles = new StyleSheet();
//...styles omitted for brevity
//Convert our HTML to iTextSharp elements
List<IElement> elements = iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser.HTMLWorker.ParseToList(sr, styles);
//Loop through each element (in this case there's actually just one PdfPTable)
foreach (IElement el in elements)
{
//If the element is a PdfPTable
if (el is PdfPTable)
{
//Cast it
PdfPTable tt = (PdfPTable)el;
//Change the widths, these are relative width by the way
tt.SetWidths(new float[] { 75, 25 });
}
//Add the element to the document
doc.Add(el);
}
}
doc.Close();
}
}
}
Hopefully you can see that once you get access to the raw PdfPTable you can tweak it as necessary.
To answer your second question, if you want to use the normal Paragraph and Chunk objects with a PdfStamper then you need to use a PdfContentByte object. You can get this from your stamper in one of two ways, either by asking for one that sits "above" existing content, stamper.GetOverContent(int) or one that sits "below" existing content, stamper.GetUnderContent(int). Both versions take a single parameter saying what page to work with. Once you have a PdfContentByte you can create a ColumnText object bound to it and use this object's AddElement() method to add your normal elements. Before doing this (and this answers your third question), you'll want to create at least one "column". When I do this I generally create one that essentially covers the entire page. (This part might sound weird but we're essentially make a single row, single column table cell to add our objects to.)
Below is a full working C# 2010 WinForms app targeting iTextSharp 5.1.1.0 that shows off everything above. First it creates a generic PDF on the desktop. Then it creates a second document based off of the first, adds a paragraph and then some HTML. See the comments in the code for any questions.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;
using System.IO;
namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//The two files that we are creating
string file1 = Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop), "File1.pdf");
string file2 = Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop), "File2.pdf");
//Create a base file to write on top of
using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(file1, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.None))
{
using (Document doc = new Document(PageSize.LETTER))
{
using (PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, fs))
{
doc.Open();
doc.Add(new Paragraph("Hello world"));
doc.Close();
}
}
}
//Bind a reader to our first document
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(file1);
//Create our second document
using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(file2, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.None))
{
using (PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, fs))
{
StyleSheet styles = new StyleSheet();
//...styles omitted for brevity
//Our HTML
string html = "<table><tr><th>First Name</th><th>Last Name</th></tr><tr><td>Chris</td><td>Haas</td></tr></table>";
//ParseToList requires a StreamReader instead of just a string so just wrap it
using (StringReader sr = new StringReader(html))
{
//Get our raw PdfContentByte object letting us draw "above" existing content
PdfContentByte cb = stamper.GetOverContent(1);
//Create a new ColumnText object bound to the above PdfContentByte object
ColumnText ct = new ColumnText(cb);
//Get the dimensions of the first page of our source document
iTextSharp.text.Rectangle page1size = reader.GetPageSize(1);
//Create a single column object spanning the entire page
ct.SetSimpleColumn(0, 0, page1size.Width, page1size.Height);
ct.AddElement(new Paragraph("Hello world!"));
//Convert our HTML to iTextSharp elements
List<IElement> elements = iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser.HTMLWorker.ParseToList(sr, styles);
//Loop through each element (in this case there's actually just one PdfPTable)
foreach (IElement el in elements)
{
//If the element is a PdfPTable
if (el is PdfPTable)
{
//Cast it
PdfPTable tt = (PdfPTable)el;
//Change the widths, these are relative width by the way
tt.SetWidths(new float[] { 75, 25 });
}
//Add the element to the ColumnText
ct.AddElement(el);
}
//IMPORTANT, this actually commits our object to the PDF
ct.Go();
}
}
}
this.Close();
}
}
}

protected void LinkPdf_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=TestPage.pdf");
Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
HtmlTextWriter hw = new HtmlTextWriter(sw);
this.Page.RenderControl(hw);
StringReader sr = new StringReader(sw.ToString());
Document pdfDoc = new Document(PageSize.A4, 10f, 10f, 100f, 0f);
HTMLWorker htmlparser = new HTMLWorker(pdfDoc);
PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfDoc, Response.OutputStream);
pdfDoc.Open();
htmlparser.Parse(sr);
pdfDoc.Close();
Response.Write(pdfDoc);
Response.End();
}

Html to pdf some characters are missing (itextsharp)

I want to export gridview to pdf by using the itextsharp library. The problem is that some turkish characters such as İ,ı,Ş,ş etc... are missing in the pdf document. The code used to export the pdf is:
protected void LinkButtonPdf_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
Response.ContentEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=FileName.pdf");
Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);
System.IO.StringWriter stringWrite = new StringWriter();
System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter htmlWrite = new HtmlTextWriter(stringWrite);
GridView1.RenderControl(htmlWrite);
StringReader reader = new StringReader(textConvert(stringWrite.ToString()));
Document doc = new Document(PageSize.A4);
HTMLWorker parser = new HTMLWorker(doc);
PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, Response.OutputStream);
doc.Open();
parser.Parse(reader);
doc.Close();
}
public static string textConvert(string S)
{
if (S == null) { return null; }
try
{
System.Text.Encoding encFrom = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
System.Text.Encoding encTo = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
string str = S;
Byte[] b = encFrom.GetBytes(str);
return encTo.GetString(b);
}
catch { return null; }
}
Note: when I want to insert characters into the pdf document, the missing characters are shown in it. I insert the characters with this code:
BaseFont bffont = BaseFont.CreateFont("C:\\WINDOWS\\Fonts\\arial.ttf", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
Font fontozel = new Font(bffont, 12, Font.NORMAL, new Color(0, 0, 0));
doc.Add(new Paragraph("İİııŞŞşşĞĞğğ", fontozel));

Finaly I think I found the solution,I changed itextsharp source code a little in order to show turkish characters.(turkish character code is cp1254)
I add "public const string CP1254 = "Cp1254";" to [BaseFont.cs] in the source code.
After that I modify the [FactoryProperties.cs].I changed like this;
public Font GetFont(ChainedProperties props)
{
I don't write the whole code.I changed only code below;
------------Default itextsharp code------------------------------------------------------
if (encoding == null)
encoding = BaseFont.WINANSI;
return fontImp.GetFont(face, encoding, true, size, style, color);
-------------modified code--------------------------------------------
encoding = BaseFont.CP1254;
return fontImp.GetFont("C:\\WINDOWS\\Fonts\\arial.ttf", encoding, true, size, style, color);
}
.After I compile new dll ,and missing characters are shown.

No need to change the source code.
Try this:
iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont STF_Helvetica_Turkish = iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont.CreateFont("Helvetica","Cp1254", iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
iTextSharp.text.Font fontNormal = new iTextSharp.text.Font(STF_Helvetica_Turkish, 12, iTextSharp.text.Font.NORMAL);

thank you very much all who posted the samples..
i use the below solution from codeproject , and there was the turkish char set problems due to font..
If you use htmlworker you should register font and pass to htmlworker
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/260470/PDF-reporting-using-ASP-NET-MVC3
StyleSheet styles = new iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser.StyleSheet();
styles.LoadTagStyle("h3", "size", "5");
styles.LoadTagStyle("td", "size", ".6");
FontFactory.Register("c:\\windows\\fonts\\arial.ttf", "Garamond"); // just give a path of arial.ttf
styles.LoadTagStyle("body", "face", "Garamond");
styles.LoadTagStyle("body", "encoding", "Identity-H");
styles.LoadTagStyle("body", "size", "12pt");
using (var htmlViewReader = new StringReader(htmlText))
{
using (var htmlWorker = new HTMLWorker(pdfDocument, null, styles))
{
htmlWorker.Parse(htmlViewReader);
}
}

I am not familiar with the iTextSharp library; however, you seem to be converting the output of your gridview component to a string and reading from that string to construct your PDF document. You also have a strange conversion from UTF-8 to UTF-8 going on.
From what I can see (given that your GridView is outputting characters correctly) if you are outputting the characters to a string they would be represented as UTF-16 in memory. You probably need to pass this string directly into the PDF library (like how you pass the raw UTF-16 .NET string "İııŞŞşşĞĞğğ" as it is).

You can use:
iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont Vn_Helvetica = iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont.CreateFont(#"C:\Windows\Fonts\arial.ttf", "Identity-H", iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
iTextSharp.text.Font fontNormal = new iTextSharp.text.Font(Vn_Helvetica, 12, iTextSharp.text.Font.NORMAL);

For Turkish encoding
CultureInfo ci = new CultureInfo("tr-TR");
Encoding enc = Encoding.GetEncoding(ci.TextInfo.ANSICodePage);
If you're outputting HTML, try different DOCTYPE tags at the top of the page.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
Note if using HTML you may need to HTMLEncode the characters.
Server.HTMLEncode()
HttpServerUtility.HtmlEncode()

BaseFont bF = BaseFont.CreateFont("c:\\arial.ttf","windows-1254",true);
Font f = new Font(bF,12f,Font.NORMAL);
Chunk c = new Chunk();
c.Font = f;
c.Append("Turkish characters: ĞÜŞİÖÇ ğüşıöç");
document.Add(c);
In the first line, you may write these instead of "windows-1254". All works:
Cp1254
iso-8859-9
windows-1254

Don't change the source code of the iTextSharp. Define a new style:
var styles = new StyleSheet();
styles.LoadTagStyle(HtmlTags.BODY, HtmlTags.FONTFAMILY, "tahoma");
styles.LoadTagStyle(HtmlTags.BODY, HtmlTags.ENCODING, "Identity-H");
and then pass it to the HTMLWorker.ParseToList method.

i have finally find a soultution for this problem , by this you can print all turkish character.
String htmlText = html.ToString();
Document document = new Document();
string filePath = HostingEnvironment.MapPath("~/Content/Pdf/");
PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, new FileStream(filePath + "\\pdf-"+Name+".pdf", FileMode.Create));
document.Open();
iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser.HTMLWorker hw = new iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser.HTMLWorker(document);
FontFactory.Register(Path.Combine(_webHelper.MapPath("~/App_Data/Pdf/arial.ttf")), "Garamond"); // just give a path of arial.ttf
StyleSheet css = new StyleSheet();
css.LoadTagStyle("body", "face", "Garamond");
css.LoadTagStyle("body", "encoding", "Identity-H");
css.LoadTagStyle("body", "size", "12pt");
hw.SetStyleSheet(css);
hw.Parse(new StringReader(htmlText));

I strongly suggest not to change itextsharp source code in order to solve this problem. Have a look at my other comment on the subject: https://stackoverflow.com/a/24587745/1138663

I solved the problem. I can provide my the other solution type...
try
{
BaseFont bf = BaseFont.CreateFont("c:\\windows\\fonts\\calibrib.ttf",
BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 25, 25, 30, 30);
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, fs);
Font f = new Font(bf, 12f, Font.NORMAL);
// Open the document to enable you to write to the document
document.Open();
// Add a simple and wellknown phrase to the document
for (int x = 0; x != 100; x++)
{
document.Add(new Paragraph("Paragraph - This is a test! ÇçĞğİıÖöŞşÜü",f));
}
// Close the document
document.Close();
}
catch(Exception)
{
}