ă ş ţ chars aren't rendered by iTextSharp - pdf

Question

I use iTextSharp in asp.net mvc to return pdf like this:
public class Pdf : IPdf
{
public FileStreamResult Make(string s)
{
using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
{
using (var document = new Document())
{
PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, ms);
document.Open();
using (var str = new StringReader(s))
{
var htmlWorker = new HTMLWorker(document);
htmlWorker.Parse(str);
}
document.Close();
}
HttpContext.Current.Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=MyPdfName.pdf");
HttpContext.Current.Response.Buffer = true;
HttpContext.Current.Response.Clear();
HttpContext.Current.Response.OutputStream.Write(ms.GetBuffer(), 0, ms.GetBuffer().Length);
HttpContext.Current.Response.OutputStream.Flush();
HttpContext.Current.Response.End();
return new FileStreamResult(HttpContext.Current.Response.OutputStream, "application/pdf");
}
}
}
the problem is that characters like: ă ţ ş are not rendered

Answer 1

yetanothercoder is correct. That would do the trick... but there's another very similar question which I answered in a bit more detail:
iText + HTMLWorker - How to change default font?

Answer 2

Please try the folowing:
var unicodeFont = iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont.CreateFont(iTextSharp.text.FontFactory.TIMES_ROMAN, iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont.CP1250, iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
acroFields.SetFieldProperty("txtContractorBirthPlace", "textfont", unicodeFont, null);
And it should do it for you.
You have to add the field property to every field you wish to have diacritics.
Baftă!