/** * Example written by Bruno Lowagie in answer to: * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24772212/itext-pdf-writer-is-there-any-way-to-allow-unicode-subscript-symbol-in-the-pdf */ package sandbox.objects; import com.itextpdf.text.Document; import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException; import com.itextpdf.text.Font; import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.BaseFont; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import sandbox.WrapToTest; @WrapToTest public class SubSuperScript { public static final String DEST = "results/objects/sub_superscript.pdf"; public static final String FONT = "resources/fonts/Cardo-Regular.ttf"; public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, DocumentException { File file = new File(DEST); file.getParentFile().mkdirs(); new SubSuperScript().createPdf(DEST); } public void createPdf(String dest) throws IOException, DocumentException { Document document = new Document(); PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(dest)); document.open(); BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont(FONT, BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED); Font f = new Font(bf, 10); Paragraph p = new Paragraph("H\u2082SO\u2074", f); document.add(p); document.close(); } }