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.

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>

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)