You're in the good path. Just call
datatable.RunDirection = PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_RTL

A link to the examples:
http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/tutorial/fonts/styles/index.html#direction

The examples are in Jave but it's trivial to modify them to C# or VB.NET.

Paulo
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my code:


Dim arial As BaseFont = BaseFont.CreateFont(windir & "\Fonts\arial.TTF",
BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED)

Dim fontArial As Font = New Font(arial, 11, Font.NORMAL)

datatable.AddCell(New Phrase(" ????  sdsds ", fontArial))



can u give me link
i downloaded samples from sourceforge
didn't see there any hebrew or arabic samples

other Basefonts like cp1252 don't show any hebrew text

what can be done to solve this ?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paulo Soares" <psoares@consiste.pt>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] need help


There are examples in the tutorial for Arabic and Hebrew. Bidi
re-ordering will only work with ColunText and PdfPTable.

Paulo

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> i can display hebrew chars
> but the text is not in the right order
> the are 'left to right' insted of 'right to left'
> how can ifix it
> can u help ?
>


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