Issue in rendering the characters in pdf after integrating with jdeveloper

Question

hi all,
i have a strange problem, i have get the jar files of the bi publisher and integrated it with the jdeveloper 11g and it's workin great in viewing reports in all format except the pdf format because we are working on a project in the middle east so we need to render arabic letters, the arabic letters rendered correctly on all formats except in pdf it renders "????? ??? " only question marks, but the strange issue that when we are using the bi publisher desktop and preview the reports in pdf format it renders correctly so we don't know what's wrong right now.... any idea
hope for help, our customer will kick our ass if we don't do this arabic reports
thanx

Answer 1

Hi
I am also having the same issue, could you please let me know how to display arabic characters properly in pdf. I am using the following java code to generate the PDF using xml publisher java API..
try { // Convert RTF to XSL-FO
               InputStream rtfInputStream = new FileInputStream(
                         "C:\\ebpp\\template\\BillTemplate.rtf");
               RTFProcessor rtfProcessor = new RTFProcessor(rtfInputStream); // input
               // template
               rtfProcessor.setOutput("C:\\ebpp\\xsl\\XslBillTemplate.xsl"); // output
               // file
               rtfProcessor.process();
               // Create XSL-FO objects for multiple XML input streams
               InputStream[] in = new InputStream[1];
               InputStream xmlInputStream = new FileInputStream(
                         "C:\\ebpp\\xml\\192359_B1-533.xml");
               Reader xmlReader = new InputStreamReader(xmlInputStream, "UTF-8");
               InputStream xslInputStream = new FileInputStream(
                         "C:\\ebpp\\xsl\\XslBillTemplate.xsl");
               Reader xslReader = new InputStreamReader(xslInputStream, "UTF-8");
               InputStream fFOStream = FOUtility.createFO(xmlReader, xslReader);
               Array.set(in, 0, fFOStream);
               // FOUtility.createFO
               // FileInputStream
               // Generate the merged FO
               InputStream mergedFOStream = FOUtility.mergeFOs(in, null);
               Reader mergedReader = new InputStreamReader(mergedFOStream, "UTF-8");
               if (mergedFOStream == null) {
                    System.out.println("Merge failed.");
               // Create FO Processor
               FOProcessor processor = new FOProcessor();
               processor.setData(mergedReader);
               processor.setTemplate((String) null);
               // FORMAT_EXCEL , FORMAT_HTML, FORMAT_RTF , FORMAT_PDF
               // Set the format
               processor.setOutput("C:\\ebpp\\pdf\\192359_B1-533.pdf");
               processor.setOutputFormat(FOProcessor.FORMAT_PDF);
               processor.generate();
          } catch (XDOException xe) {
               System.out.println(" XDOException " + xe.getMessage());
          } catch (Exception e) {
               System.out.println(" Exception " + e.getMessage());
Please reply me back ..