Flying Saucer and utf encoding

Question

Hello,
This post is on the heals of a former post of another user.
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5265104&messageID=10105301
I am using Flying Saucer in a J2EE application. The server is configured to encode using UTF-8. I required to keep this setting. I would like to know if there is a way to change the default character encoding from latin to UTF-8. It seem like there should be a method to set the encoding.
I am aware of this instruction on https://xhtmlrenderer.dev.java.net/r7/users-guide-r7.html#configuration
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.BaseFont;
ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer();
FontResolver resolver = renderer.getFontResolver();
resolver.addFont (
"C:\\WINNT\\Fonts\\ARIALUNI.TTF",
BaseFont.IDENTITY_H,
BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED
However,
This does not work for me because the instantiation of the ITextRenderer object is what gives me runtime exceptions.
I commented everything out left this line ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer(); and I still get runtime exceptions.
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks.

Answer 1

ok i have hurdled on obstacle. I forgot to put /resources/conf/xhtmlrenderer.conf into the classpath.
now i have another problem.
the following code will not work for me, because i do not have ARIALUNI.TTF.
ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer();
FontResolver resolver = renderer.getFontResolver();
resolver.addFont (
"C:\\WINNT\\Fonts\\ARIALUNI.TTF",
BaseFont.IDENTITY_H,
BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED
I did try using ARIAL.TTF, but that did not work. It give me the same error as if I did not use the FontResolver.
In other words
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CodeSnippet1
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String inputFile = "test.xhtml";
String url = new File(inputFile).toURI().toURL().toString();
String outputFile = "firstdoc.pdf";
OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(outputFile);
ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer();
ITextFontResolver resolver = renderer.getFontResolver();
resolver.addFont ("C:\\WINDOWS\\Fonts\\ARIAL.TTF", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
renderer.setDocument(url);
renderer.layout();
renderer.createPDF(os);
os.close();
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CodeSnippet2
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String inputFile = "test.xhtml";
String url = new File(inputFile).toURI().toURL().toString();
String outputFile = "firstdoc.pdf";
OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(outputFile);
ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer();
renderer.setDocument(url);
renderer.layout();
renderer.createPDF(os);
os.close();
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CodeSnippet1 and CodeSnippet2 gives this exception.
org.xhtmlrenderer.util.XRRuntimeException: Can't load the XML resource (using TRaX transformer). java.io.IOException: Stream closed
     at org.xhtmlrenderer.resource.XMLResource$XMLResourceBuilder.createXMLResource(XMLResource.java:191)
     at org.xhtmlrenderer.resource.XMLResource.load(XMLResource.java:71)
     at org.xhtmlrenderer.swing.NaiveUserAgent.getXMLResource(NaiveUserAgent.java:205)
     at org.xhtmlrenderer.pdf.ITextRenderer.loadDocument(ITextRenderer.java:102)
     at org.xhtmlrenderer.pdf.ITextRenderer.setDocument(ITextRenderer.java:106)
Again any help will be greatly appreciated.