Reversing Strings in Right To Left (BiDirectional) Languages in iTextSharp

Question

I'm using iTextSharp( C# iText port) to create pdfs from text/html. Most of my text is in Hebrew, a Right-To-Left language.

My problem is that PDFs show RTL langauge in reverse, so I need to reverse my strings in a way that would only reverse the RTL text without reversing any numbers or text in English. It is my understanding that fribidi allows doing that on linux, but I couldn't find any solutions for this problem for Windows.

I would welcome any suggestions, including an alternative to iTextSharp that would do this automatically (if one exists).

Answer 1

To show RTL texts by using iTextSharp correctly:

• You need to set the font's encoding to BaseFont.IDENTITY_H
• Then you have to use container elements which support RunDirection, such as PdfPCell, ColumnText, etc. and now you can set their element.RunDirection = PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_RTL;