Try:

DefaultFontMapper.BaseFontParameters par =
mapper.getBaseFontParameters("Symbol");
if (par != null) {
  par.encoding = "symbol";
}

or

DefaultFontMapper.BaseFontParameters par =
mapper.getBaseFontParameters("ZapfDingbats");
if (par != null) {
  par.encoding = "ZapfDingbats";
}

I'm assuming that the awt can see those fonts. If it can't you can map
other names.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthias.Dillier@(protected)]
> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 2:49 PM
> To: Paulo Soares
> Cc: itext-questions@(protected)
> Subject: RE: [iText-questions] charactercodes in Symbol font
>
> Hi Paulo
>
> Thank you for your answer, but could you give me some more hints?
>
> "Paulo Soares" <psoares@(protected):
>
> > PdfGraphics2D doesn't do automatic font substitution. If it's just
> > Symbol it will work if you register it in DefaultFontMapper with the
> > encoding name "Symbol".
>
> I use:
>     DefaultFontMapper mapper = new DefaultFontMapper();
>      mapper.insertDirectory("D:/path/to/fonts");
>      mapper.insertDirectory("D:/path/to/standardfonts");
>
> Where Symbol and ZapfDingbats are in "D:/path/to/standardfonts" as
> PS-type1-fonts.
>
> Then I use a normal Graphics2D object to define a graph
> (really I also
> want to use JFreeChart to produce a graph in a Graphics2D
> object). With
> iText, I finally want to produce a pdf-file with a graph.
> When I have an
> attributed string using the Symbol-font, the characters display as
> expected, when I use a normal string, the characters are missing. A
> similar problem is there with the ZapfDingbats font.
>
> > > Subject: [iText-questions] charactercodes in Symbol font
> > >
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > I encountered a problem with the charactercodes and the
> Symbol font
> > > (PS-Type1 Symbol). I did my tests on Windows XP with SUNs
> Java SDK
> > > 1.4.2._06 and iText 1.3 (based on itext-paulo-153).
> > > I use PdfGraphics2D to produce a pdf-file from a Graphics2D
> > > object. I want
> > > to print some text using the Symbol font. As an example, I
> > > use the string
> > > "Hello\u03A9\u0398\u22A5" which includes three Unicode-values
> > > for Greek
> > > characters which are included in the Symbol font. When I
> > > directly use this
> > > string in drawString(), the characters which are defined
> with their
> > > unicode-values are not displayed, but the normal characters
> > > 'Hello' are
> > > displayed with Greek characters. When I use an
> > > attributedString() and set
> > > the font to Symbol with addAttribute() and draw it with an
> > > attributedCharacterIterator the characters 'Hello' are not
> > > displayed and
> > > the characters defined by their unicode-value are correctly
> > > displayed as
> > > expected.
> > >
> > > Any idea what goes wrong here?
>
> Regards
> Matthias Dillier
>
>
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