Fonts not working when deploying jasperreport in PDF from web app

Question

I'm having some issues with the fonts when I'm deploying the reports in my web app. The fonts I want to have in my result pdfs are Arial, Calibri and Century Gothic.

I followed all the steps pointed here but couldn't get it working.

Here's what I did:

I modified the content of my jasperreports_extension.properties like following:

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

Then at net\sf\jasperreports\fonts I put the three folders for the fonts containing the four styles (normal, bold, italic and bold-italic) for each of the fonts before mentioned.

Also, modified the fonts.xml at net/sf/jasperreports/fonts and it looks like this now:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<fontFamilies>

    <fontFamily name="DejaVu Sans">
        <normal>net/sf/jasperreports/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf</normal>
        <bold>net/sf/jasperreports/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf</bold>
        <italic>net/sf/jasperreports/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf</italic>
        <boldItalic>net/sf/jasperreports/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf</boldItalic>
        <pdfEncoding>Identity-H</pdfEncoding>
        <pdfEmbedded>true</pdfEmbedded>
        <exportFonts>
            <export key="net.sf.jasperreports.html">'DejaVu Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif</export>
            <export key="net.sf.jasperreports.xhtml">'DejaVu Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif</export>
        </exportFonts>
        <!--
        <locales>
            <locale>en_US</locale>
            <locale>de_DE</locale>
        </locales>
        -->
    </fontFamily>

    <fontFamily name="DejaVu Serif">
        <normal>net/sf/jasperreports/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSerif.ttf</normal>
        <bold>net/sf/jasperreports/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf</bold>
        <italic>net/sf/jasperreports/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSerif-Italic.ttf</italic>
        <boldItalic>net/sf/jasperreports/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSerif-BoldItalic.ttf</boldItalic>
        <pdfEncoding>Identity-H</pdfEncoding>
        <pdfEmbedded>true</pdfEmbedded>
        <exportFonts>
            <export key="net.sf.jasperreports.html">'DejaVu Serif', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif</export>
            <export key="net.sf.jasperreports.xhtml">'DejaVu Serif', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif</export>
        </exportFonts>
    </fontFamily>

    <fontFamily name="DejaVu Sans Mono">
        <normal>net/sf/jasperreports/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf</normal>
        <bold>net/sf/jasperreports/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf</bold>
        <italic>net/sf/jasperreports/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-Oblique.ttf</italic>
        <boldItalic>net/sf/jasperreports/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-BoldOblique.ttf</boldItalic>
        <pdfEncoding>Identity-H</pdfEncoding>
        <pdfEmbedded>true</pdfEmbedded>
        <exportFonts>
            <export key="net.sf.jasperreports.html">'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace</export>
            <export key="net.sf.jasperreports.xhtml">'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace</export>
        </exportFonts>
    </fontFamily>

    <!--
        Mapping Java logical fonts, for the sake of HTML export only.
    -->

    <fontFamily name="SansSerif">
        <exportFonts>
            <export key="net.sf.jasperreports.html">'DejaVu Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif</export>
            <export key="net.sf.jasperreports.xhtml">'DejaVu Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif</export>
        </exportFonts>
    </fontFamily>
    <fontFamily name="Serif">
        <exportFonts>
            <export key="net.sf.jasperreports.html">'DejaVu Serif', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif</export>
            <export key="net.sf.jasperreports.xhtml">'DejaVu Serif', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif</export>
        </exportFonts>
    </fontFamily>
    <fontFamily name="Monospaced">
        <exportFonts>
            <export key="net.sf.jasperreports.html">'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace</export>
            <export key="net.sf.jasperreports.xhtml">'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace</export>
        </exportFonts>
    </fontFamily>

    <fontFamily name="Arial">
       <normal>net/sf/jasperreports/fonts/arial/arial.ttf</normal>
       <bold>net/sf/jasperreports/fonts/arial/ArialBold.ttf</bold>
       <italic>net/sf/jasperreports/fonts/arial/ArialItalic.ttf</italic>
       <boldItalic>net/sf/jasperreports/fonts/arial/ArialBoldItalic.ttf</boldItalic>
       <pdfEncoding>Identity-H</pdfEncoding>
       <pdfEmbedded>true</pdfEmbedded>
       <exportFonts>
           <export key="net.sf.jasperreports.html">'Arial'</export>
           <export key="net.sf.jasperreports.xhtml">'Arial'</export>
       </exportFonts>
    </fontFamily>

    <fontFamily name="Calibri">
       <normal>net/sf/jasperreports/fonts/calibri/calibri.ttf</normal>
       <bold>net/sf/jasperreports/fonts/calibri/calibri-bold.ttf</bold>
       <italic>net/sf/jasperreports/fonts/calibri/calibri-italic.ttf</italic>
       <boldItalic>net/sf/jasperreports/fonts/calibri/calibri-bold-italic.ttf</boldItalic>
       <pdfEncoding>Identity-H</pdfEncoding>
       <pdfEmbedded>true</pdfEmbedded>
       <exportFonts>
           <export key="net.sf.jasperreports.html">'Calibri'</export>
           <export key="net.sf.jasperreports.xhtml">'Calibri'</export>
       </exportFonts>
    </fontFamily>

    <fontFamily name="Century Gothic">
       <normal>net/sf/jasperreports/fonts/centurygothic/century-gothic.ttf</normal>
       <bold>net/sf/jasperreports/fonts/centurygothic/century-gothic-bold.ttf</bold>
       <italic>net/sf/jasperreports/fonts/centurygothic/century-gothic-italic.ttf</italic>
       <boldItalic>net/sf/jasperreports/fonts/centurygothic/century-gothic-bold-italic.ttf</boldItalic>
       <pdfEncoding>Identity-H</pdfEncoding>
       <pdfEmbedded>true</pdfEmbedded>
       <exportFonts>
           <export key="net.sf.jasperreports.html">'Century Gothic'</export>
           <export key="net.sf.jasperreports.xhtml">'Century Gothic'</export>
       </exportFonts>
    </fontFamily>   


</fontFamilies>

Note that I just added the last three fonts.

After that I prepared the jar file and put it in my app classpath as mandatory. So far I just got the report exported with normal Sanserif font...

I don't know what I'm doing wrong, any ideas?

Thanks!

Quick informative note: I'm using Jaspersoft Studio Community edition (6.3.0) and my app is deployed in a JBoss server.

Answer 1

I finally found out what was happening in my case and now it's working.

When I introduced the fonts (.ttf extension) in Jaspersoft Studio Windows->Preferences->Fonts I selected a wrong value for the PDF Encoding selection combo. I first selected CP1252 (Western European ANSI aka WinAnsi) which is WRONG if you want to export reports in PDF, then I chose Identity-H (Unicode with horizontal writing) instead and it worked fine.

However, what I still don't understand is: if in my report I'm only using Calibri and Century Gothic fonts, why in earth when I go to see the fonts used in my PDF (File->Properties->Fonts) I get also Helvetica in the list of fonts used?