title: Problems with Chinese Fonts in iText-PDF on Windows Machines
body: <p>I'm using a Ubuntu-PC to create PDFs with iText which are partly in Chinese. To read them I use Evince. So far there were hardly any problems</p>
  
  <p>On my PC I tried the following three BaseFonts and they worked with success:</p>
  
  <pre><code>bf = BaseFont.createFont("MSungStd-Light", "UniCNS-UCS2-H", BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED); 
  bf = BaseFont.createFont("STSong-Light", "UniGB-UCS2-H", BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED); 
  bf = BaseFont.createFont("MSung-Light","UniCNS-UCS2-H", BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED); 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Unfortunately in the moment the final PDF is opened on Windows with the Acrobat-Reader the document can't be displayed correctly any more.</p>
  
  <p>After I googled the Fonts to get a solution I came to that Forum where the problem is explained in an understandable way (Here MSung-Light was used): <a href="http://community.jaspersoft.com/questions/531457/chinese-font-cannot-be-seen" rel="nofollow">http://community.jaspersoft.com/questions/531457/chinese-font-cannot-be-seen</a></p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>You are using a built-in Chinese font in PDF. I'm not sure about the
    ability of this font to support both English and Chinese, or mixed
    language anyway.</p>
    
    <p>The advantage of using an Acrobat Reader built-in font is that it
    produces smaller PDF files, because it relies on those fonts being
    available on the client machine that display the PDF, through the
    pre-installed Acribat Asian Font Pack.</p>
    
    <p>However, using the PDF built-in fonts has some disadvantages that were
    discovered through testing on different machines, when we investegated
    a similar problem related to a built-in Korean font.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>What should I do about it?
  It's not so important to be able to copy the Chinese letters. Can iText convert a paragraph to an image? Or are there any better solutions?</p>