How can I set my font on calibri via iText7?

Question

I try to set my text on Calibri on my Pdf document but that doesn't work. How can I set my font on calibri via iText7? Fontconstant class only has limited fonts.

Answer 1

As mentioned, there is a whole chapter on fonts with more information on what you can do, what are the differences, etc.

In a nutshell, you use CreateFont to load your font file.

Something like this will allow you to set the font per Paragraph element:

    FontProgram fontProgram =
        FontProgramFactory.CreateFont(@"C:\temp\calibri.ttf");
    PdfFont calibri = PdfFontFactory.CreateFont(fontProgram, PdfEncodings.WINANSI);
    using (PdfDocument pdfDocument = new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter(DEST)))
    {
        Document document = new Document(pdfDocument);
        document.Add(new Paragraph("Hello World!").SetFont(calibri));
    }

but you can also do it for the whole Document:

    FontProgram fontProgram =
        FontProgramFactory.CreateFont(@"C:\temp\calibri.ttf");
    PdfFont calibri = PdfFontFactory.CreateFont(fontProgram, PdfEncodings.WINANSI);
    using (PdfDocument pdfDocument = new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter(DEST)))
    {
        Document document = new Document(pdfDocument);
        document.SetFont(calibri);
        document.Add(new Paragraph("Hello World!"));
    }