Adding Multibyte Character Set Fonts for PDF Printing

Single-byte fonts print properly but, while multibyte display properly on screen, an additional configuration step is needed to make them available to the PDF rendering engine.

To install multibyte fonts:

1. Identify the fonts you need.
   For example, for any of the East Asian languages like Chinese, Korean, Hindi, or Japanese, you need the following font files:

   • batang.ttc
   • simsun.ttc
   • mangal.ttf
   • mangalb.ttf

2. Locate those files.

   • If they are already part of your Linux installation, you should find them at /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/
   • If they are not there, you can copy them to that location from a Windows 7 or Windows 8 installation, as they are OS-independent. You can find them in the /Windows/Fonts/ folder.
   • As a last resort, download the files from the web, and place them in /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/

3. Execute the commands to create that configuration file that the PDF rendering engine needs:

   <syntaxhighlight lang="text" enclose="div">

cd {tomcat_install_dir}/lib java -jar pd4ml.jar -configure.fonts /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/ </syntaxhighlight>

1. This step creates the pd4fonts.properties file, which contains a list of fonts.

2. Restart Tomcat.
   The fonts are now available for use.