Problem with cyrillic letters in PDF generated with iText in Android
I am tring to generate a PDF in my android application. I use iText and it generates PDF but only letters in english are shown. I found example code for iText working with unicode. I tried this example code in a simple comsole java application and it worked fine. This is the code:

    * --> Copyright 2001 by Paulo Soares, Bruno Lowagie <--
    public class Chap0903 {
        
        public static void main(String[] args) {
            
            System.out.println("Chapter 9 example 3: True Types (embedded)");
            
            Document document1 = new Document();
            
            try {
                
                 PdfWriter.getInstance(document1, new FileOutputStream("c:\\Chap0903.pdf"));
                
                 BaseFont bfComic = BaseFont.createFont("assets/fonts/comic.ttf", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
                 Font font1 = new Font(bfComic, 12);
                 String text1 = "This is the quite popular True Type font 'Comic'.";
                 String text2 = "Some greek characters: \u0393\u0394\u03b6";
                 String text3 = "Some cyrillic characters: \u0418\u044f";
                 document1.open();
                 document1.add(new Paragraph(text1,font1));
                 document1.add(new Paragraph(text2,font1));
                 document1.add(new Paragraph(text3,font1)); 
                 document1.close();
            }
            catch(DocumentException de) {
                document1.close();
                System.err.println(de.getMessage());
            }
            catch(IOException ioe) {
                document1.close();
                System.err.println(ioe.getMessage());
            }
          }
    }

When I adapted this code for an android activity, it stopped to work:

    	public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
    		super.onCreate(icicle);
    		String root = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath();
    
           Document document1 = new Document();
            
            try {
                PdfWriter.getInstance(document1, new FileOutputStream(root+"/"+"Chap0903.pdf"));
                         
                BaseFont bfComic = BaseFont.createFont("assets/fonts/comic.ttf", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
                Font font1 = new Font(bfComic, 12);
                String text1 = "This is the quite popular True Type font 'Comic'.";
                String text2 = "Some greek characters: \u0393\u0394\u03b6";
                String text3 = "Some cyrillic characters: \u0418\u044f";
                document1.open();
                document1.add(new Paragraph(text1,font1));
                document1.add(new Paragraph(text2,font1));
                document1.add(new Paragraph(text3,font1)); 
                document1.close();
                
    			Intent intent = new Intent();
    			setResult(RESULT_OK, intent);		
            } 
            catch(DocumentException de) {
              document1.close();
      	      Intent intent = new Intent();
    	      setResult(RESULT_CANCELED, intent);		   
              System.err.println(de.getMessage());
            }
            catch(IOException ioe) {
               document1.close();
     	       Intent intent = new Intent();
    	       setResult(RESULT_CANCELED, intent);
               System.err.println(ioe.getMessage());
               Task.mes(ioe.getMessage());
          } finally {}
    
    }

The problem is not with the location of the file comic.ttf because if I change the path to a wrong one I get IOExeption. The problem is not with the generation of the PDF itself becasue if I use this code without font1, it generates a PDF file on the sd card but it is without the unicode characters:

       document1.add(new Paragraph(text1));
       document1.add(new Paragraph(text2));
       document1.add(new Paragraph(text3)); 

What can be the problem ?
Problem with cyrillic letters in PDF generated with iText in Android
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I am tring to generate a PDF in my android application. I use iText and it generates PDF but only letters in english are shown. I found example code for iText working with unicode. I tried this example code in a simple comsole java application and it worked fine. This is the code:

    * --> Copyright 2001 by Paulo Soares, Bruno Lowagie <--
    public class Chap0903 {
        
        public static void main(String[] args) {
            
            System.out.println("Chapter 9 example 3: True Types (embedded)");
            
            Document document1 = new Document();
            
            try {
                
                 PdfWriter.getInstance(document1, new FileOutputStream("c:\\Chap0903.pdf"));
                
                 BaseFont bfComic = BaseFont.createFont("assets/fonts/comic.ttf", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
                 Font font1 = new Font(bfComic, 12);
                 String text1 = "This is the quite popular True Type font 'Comic'.";
                 String text2 = "Some greek characters: \u0393\u0394\u03b6";
                 String text3 = "Some cyrillic characters: \u0418\u044f";
                 document1.open();
                 document1.add(new Paragraph(text1,font1));
                 document1.add(new Paragraph(text2,font1));
                 document1.add(new Paragraph(text3,font1)); 
                 document1.close();
            }
            catch(DocumentException de) {
                document1.close();
                System.err.println(de.getMessage());
            }
            catch(IOException ioe) {
                document1.close();
                System.err.println(ioe.getMessage());
            }
          }
    }

When I adapted this code for an android activity, it stopped to work:

    	public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
    		super.onCreate(icicle);
    		String root = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath();
    
           Document document1 = new Document();
            
            try {
                PdfWriter.getInstance(document1, new FileOutputStream(root+"/"+"Chap0903.pdf"));
                         
                BaseFont bfComic = BaseFont.createFont("assets/fonts/comic.ttf", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
                Font font1 = new Font(bfComic, 12);
                String text1 = "This is the quite popular True Type font 'Comic'.";
                String text2 = "Some greek characters: \u0393\u0394\u03b6";
                String text3 = "Some cyrillic characters: \u0418\u044f";
                document1.open();
                document1.add(new Paragraph(text1,font1));
                document1.add(new Paragraph(text2,font1));
                document1.add(new Paragraph(text3,font1)); 
                document1.close();
                
    			Intent intent = new Intent();
    			setResult(RESULT_OK, intent);		
            } 
            catch(DocumentException de) {
              document1.close();
      	      Intent intent = new Intent();
    	      setResult(RESULT_CANCELED, intent);		   
              System.err.println(de.getMessage());
            }
            catch(IOException ioe) {
               document1.close();
     	       Intent intent = new Intent();
    	       setResult(RESULT_CANCELED, intent);
               System.err.println(ioe.getMessage());
               Task.mes(ioe.getMessage());
          } finally {}
    
    }

The problem is not with the location of the file comic.ttf because if I change the path to a wrong one I get IOExeption. The problem is not with the generation of the PDF itself becasue if I use this code without font1, it generates a PDF file on the sd card but it is without the unicode characters:

       document1.add(new Paragraph(text1));
       document1.add(new Paragraph(text2));
       document1.add(new Paragraph(text3)); 

What can be the problem ?