Question

I’m having troubles adding font-family to a predefined HTML structure with content in itextsharp.
Whatever I do, it just keep going to the font “Arial”.

I can add font-color without trouble.

This is what I’m using:

var style = new StyleSheet();
style.LoadTagStyle(HtmlTags.TABLE, HtmlTags.COLOR, "#00ff00");
style.LoadTagStyle("body", "font-family", "times new roman");

document.Open();

                    List<IElement> sr = HTMLWorker.ParseToList(new StringReader(html), style);

                    foreach (IElement element in sr)
                    {
                        document.Add(element);
                    }
document.close();

Any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

The iText[Sharp] HTML/XML parsers only use the standard PDF Type 1 fonts by default. Times New Roman is not one of those fonts, so you have to explicitly register it before calling LoadTagStyle():

FontFactory.RegisterDirectories();

or:

FontFactory.Register(FULL_PATH_TO_TIMES_NEW_ROMAN); 

RegisterDirectories() registers all the Windows system fonts, so it will be much slower.

Or you can go the route of using the Type 1 font, without registering extra fonts:

style.LoadTagStyle(HtmlTags.TABLE, HtmlTags.FACE, "times-roman");