Courier New font is blurry/sponge when printing to dotmatrix printer - pdf

When printing to dotmatrix printer, I noticed the texts in "Courier New" font are blurry/sponge when using GrapeCity's Document PDF.
To make sure it's not a printer driver issues, I used MS Word & set that text to "Courier New" with same font size as the one used in GrapeCity PDF. I then print it from MS Word, the text are crystal clear so I know the printer driver & Windows 10 printer setup is ok.
Does anyone know why it doesn't work too good in GrapeCity.Documents.PDF? How do we fix this script bug properly?
var pdfDocument = new GcPdfDocument(PdfEditor.GrapeCityLicense);
var pdfPage = pdfDocument.NewPage();
pdfPage.PaperKind = PaperKind.Legal;
pdfPage.Landscape = false;
var rectangleField = new RectangleF(10f, 20f, 200f, 10f);
var pdfGraphic = pdfPage.Graphics;
pdfGraphic.DrawString(
"Hello World! My car is 2008 Toyota LE Sedan 4 Camary. VIN is 4T1B346K88U780470",
new TextFormat()
{
FontName = "Courier New",
FontSize = 10.0f,
ForeColor = Color.Black,
Language = Language.English,
FontSizeInGraphicUnits = false,
FontStyle = FontStyle.Regular
},
rectangleField,
TextAlignment.Leading,
ParagraphAlignment.Near,
false
);
using (var pdfStream = new MemoryStream())
{
pdfDocument.Save(pdfStream);
pdfStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
pdfBytes = pdfStream.ToArray();
}
Edited: Attached image as per commenter's request.

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allow arabic text in pdf table using itext7 (xamarin android)

I have to put my list data in a table in a pdf file. My data has some Arabic words. When my pdf is generated, the Arabic words don't appear. I searched and found that I need itext7.pdfcalligraph so I installed it in my app. I found this code too https://itextpdf.com/en/blog/technical-notes/displaying-text-different-languages-single-pdf-document and tried to do something similar to allow Arabic words in my table but I couldn't figure it out.
This is a trial code before I apply it to my real list:
var path2 = global::Android.OS.Environment.ExternalStorageDirectory.AbsolutePath;
filePath = System.IO.Path.Combine(path2.ToString(), "myfile2.pdf");
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PdfDocument pdf2 = new iText.Kernel.Pdf.PdfDocument(writer);
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FontSet set = new FontSet();
set.AddFont("ARIAL.TTF");
document.SetFontProvider(new FontProvider(set));
document.SetProperty(Property.FONT, "Arial");
string[] sources = new string[] { "يوم","شهر 2020" };
iText.Layout.Element.Table table = new iText.Layout.Element.Table(2, false);
foreach (string source in sources)
{
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Bidi bidi = new Bidi(source, Bidi.DirectionDefaultLeftToRight);
if (bidi.BaseLevel != 0)
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}
paragraph.Add(source);
table.AddCell(new Cell(1, 1).SetTextAlignment(iText.Layout.Properties.TextAlignment.CENTER).Add(paragraph));
}
document.Add(table);
document.Close();
I updated my code and added the arial.ttf to my assets folder . i'm getting the following exception:
System.InvalidOperationException: 'FontProvider and FontSet are empty. Cannot resolve font family name (see ElementPropertyContainer#setFontFamily) without initialized FontProvider (see RootElement#setFontProvider).'
and I still can't figure it out. any ideas?
thanks in advance
- C #
I have a similar situation for Turkish characters, and I've followed these
steps :
Create a folder under projects root folder which is : /wwwroot/Fonts
Add OpenSans-Regular.ttf under the Fonts folder
Path for font is => ../wwwroot/Fonts/OpenSans-Regular.ttf
Create font like below :
public static PdfFont CreateOpenSansRegularFont()
{
var path = "{Your absolute path for FONT}";
return PdfFontFactory.CreateFont(path, PdfEncodings.IDENTITY_H, true);
}
and use it like :
paragraph.Add(source)
.SetFont(FontFactory.CreateOpenSansRegularFont()); //set font in here
table.AddCell(new Cell(1, 1)
.SetTextAlignment(iText.Layout.Properties.TextAlignment.CENTER)
.Add(paragraph));
This is how I used font factory for Turkish characters ex: "ü,i,ç,ş,ö"
For Xamarin-Android, you could try
string documentsPath = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments);
var path = Path.Combine(documentsPath, "Fonts/Arial.ttf");
Look i fixed it in java,this may help you:
String font = "your Arabic font";
//the magic is in the next 4 lines:
PdfFontFactory.register(font);
FontProgram fontProgram = FontProgramFactory.createFont(font, true);
PdfFont f = PdfFontFactory.createFont(fontProgram, PdfEncodings.IDENTITY_H);
LanguageProcessor languageProcessor = new ArabicLigaturizer();
//and look here how i used setBaseDirection and don't use TextAlignment ,it will work without it
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com.itextpdf.layout.Document TempDoc = new com.itextpdf.layout.Document(tempPdfDoc);
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.setFontSize(15);

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I have the below requirement.
Convert the SVG to PDF using Apache batik
Prepare source PDF document with Header and Footer using IText 7
Take the converted PDF and embed it in the content of the source PDF
I have seen IText supports converting an SVG to Image but the output is not proper. The output from batik seems to be perfect.
Below is my code. Can anyone please suggest a proper approach ? I am not able to achieve it
SVG to PDF using batik
FileInputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(new File(Paths.get("Input").toAbsolutePath()+"/test.svg"));
byte[] bytes = IOUtils.toByteArray(inputStream);
FileOutputStream pdfOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(new File(Paths.get("Output").toAbsolutePath()+"/convertedSvg.pdf"));
Transcoder transcoder = new PDFTranscoder();
TranscoderInput transcoderInput = new TranscoderInput(new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes));
TranscoderOutput transcoderOutput = new TranscoderOutput(pdfOutputStream);
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transcoder.addTranscodingHint(PDFTranscoder.KEY_WIDTH, new Float(dpi * 29.7));
transcoder.addTranscodingHint(PDFTranscoder.KEY_HEIGHT, new Float(dpi * 42.0));
transcoder.addTranscodingHint(PDFTranscoder.KEY_PIXEL_UNIT_TO_MILLIMETER,(25.4f / 72f));
transcoder.transcode(transcoderInput, transcoderOutput);
iText Code
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pdfDoc.addEventHandler(PdfDocumentEvent.START_PAGE, headerHandler);
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doc.getPageEffectiveArea(PageSize.A3.rotate());
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imageTable.setBorder(Border.NO_BORDER);
imageTable.setWidth(UnitValue.createPercentValue(100));
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Paragraph paragraph = new Paragraph("Horizontal Trajectory");
paragraph.setVerticalAlignment(VerticalAlignment.TOP);
cell.add(paragraph);
cell.setBorder(Border.NO_BORDER);
cell.setPaddingTop(50);
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How to add Code128 Barcode image to existing pdf using pdfbox(1.8.12) with barcode4j library?

I am trying to generate the barcode from barcode4j library(code128bean, other barcode beans) and try to add to the existing pdf. The barcode image is getting created locally using the below code.
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//width exactly one pixel
//bean.setCodeset(2);
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try {
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canvas1.finish();
} finally {
code128Stream.close();
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Can somebody help on this?
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code128Bean.doQuietZone(false);
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// main code
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PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(
finalDoc, pdPage, true, true, true
);
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finalDoc.addPage(pdPage);
finalDoc.save(new File("D:/Test75.pdf"));
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dpi, BufferedImage.TYPE_BYTE_BINARY, false, 0
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Can anyone suggest how to show value stored in SQL in HTML form to word file. I am using open xml tool to generate my word from my asp.net MVC application and it works fine but now I am stuck in one point where there is a bullet points entry stored in my DB field and I have to show it in my table cell text property?
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Try Html to Open XML.
Refer Here : http://html2openxml.codeplex.com/
Hope this helps!

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When I tried to use the code to convert the file format files to PDF using itextsharp. The problem appears when converting texts written in Arabic. The result came without the written text in Arabic.
I hope you to help me overcome the problems.
Thank you very much
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Something like this:
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iText ® هي المكتبة التي تسمح لك لخلق والتلاعب وثائق PDF. فإنه يتيح للمطورين تتطلع الى تعزيز شبكة الإنترنت وغيرها من التطبيقات مع دينامية الجيل ثيقة PDF و / أو تلاعب.
";
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"c:/windows/fonts/arialuni.ttf",
BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED
));
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table.AddCell(cell);
document.Add(table);
}
Sorry if the example text above is poor, incorrect, or both. I had to use Google translate, since my native language is English.