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Asked: 2026-05-17T15:34:30+00:00

I am having hard time trying to generate PDF files containing Greek letters using

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I am having hard time trying to generate PDF files containing Greek letters using itextpdf. I am reading the strings from an external source as UTF-8 strings. English letters appear in results but not the Greek ones. Searching for the problem, I think it might be related to the font used. I do not know what ttf file to use if this is the problem.
Here is how am creating the font

 BaseFont bfTimes = BaseFont.createFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA,"UTF-8", BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
 Font times = new Font(bfTimes, 12, Font.BOLD);

any help is heartily appreciated!

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  1. Editorial Team

    You need to use a font that has Greek characters in it.
    You may find Greek unicode fonts here.

    You can check an example here on using unicode fonts from the author of itext.

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