JasperReports 5.6: Could not load the following font

Question

I am facing the problem, that JasperReports still cannot find the Arial font.

I created a simple Maven Project with following structure and included it to my main application. So the main application contains the installed JAR in classpath:

- jasperreports_extension.properties
- fonts
  |-> arial
    |-> ariali.ttf
    |-> arialbi.ttf
    |-> arialbd.ttf
    |-> arial.ttf
  |-> fonts.xml

But I still see following Exception while exporting report to PDF.

net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRRuntimeException: Could not load the following font : 
pdfFontName   : Arial
pdfEncoding   : Identity-H
isPdfEmbedded : true

jasperreports_extension.properties

net.sf.jasperreports.extension.registry.factory.simple.font.families=net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fonts.SimpleFontExtensionsRegistryFactory
net.sf.jasperreports.extension.simple.font.families.arial=fonts/fonts.xml

fonts.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<fontFamilies>
    <fontFamily name="Arial">
        <normal>fonts/arial/arial.ttf</normal>
        <bold>fonts/arial/arialbd.ttf</bold>
        <italic>fonts/arial/ariali.ttf</italic>
        <boldItalic>fonts/arial/arialbi.ttf</boldItalic>
        <pdfEncoding>Identity-H</pdfEncoding>
        <pdfEmbedded>true</pdfEmbedded>
    </fontFamily>
</fontFamilies>

Template

<font fontName="Arial" size="8" pdfFontName="Arial" pdfEncoding="Identity-H" isPdfEmbedded="true"/>

Solution 1

The problem was the template itself: At one font-tag the <fontName> property was missing:

Does not work:

<font size="12" isBold="true" pdfFontName="Arial"/>

Does work:

<font fontName="Arial" size="12" isBold="true" pdfFontName="Arial" pdfEncoding="Identity-H" isPdfEmbedded="true"/>

Solution 2

Copy the fonts files (*.ttf) into the folder:

/path/to/app/WEB-INF/classes/***HERE***

You app will get the fonts from here :)

Solution 3

You must give the correct name of font for the PDF exporter. Your fonts are presents into the embedded fonts jar. You don't need to put them again into the classes directory ;-)

There is the correct fonts.xml content for pdf exporter (perhaps the names are case sensitive, be careful) :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<fontFamilies>
<fontFamily name="Arial">
    <normal>
      <ttf>fonts/Arial/ARIAL.TTF</ttf>
      <pdf>fonts/Arial/ARIAL.TTF</pdf>
    </normal>
    <bold>
      <ttf>fonts/Arial/ARIALBD.TTF</ttf>
      <pdf>fonts/Arial/ARIALBD.TTF</pdf>
    </bold>
    <italic>
      <ttf>fonts/Arial/ARIALI.TTF</ttf>
      <pdf>fonts/Arial/ARIALI.TTF</pdf>
    </italic>
    <boldItalic>
      <ttf>fonts/Arial/ARIALBI.TTF</ttf>
      <pdf>fonts/Arial/ARIALBI.TTF</pdf>
    </boldItalic>
    <pdfEncoding>Cp1252</pdfEncoding>
    <pdfEmbedded>true</pdfEmbedded>
    <exportFonts>
    </exportFonts>
</fontFamily>
</fontFamilies>

I hope this help.

Regards, T.

Comments

[Gustavo]

I don't get. I have the same problem but only on Linux. On Windows it works fine, so, I don't think the problem is the template, but the loading of the extension.

[Alfabravo]

@Gustavo oddly enough, it's happening to me on Windows, not on Linux. Running out of things to try...