IText pdf not displaying Chinese characters when using NOTO or Source Hans fonts

Question

I am trying to use NOTO fonts ( https://www.google.com/get/noto/ ) to display Chinese characters. Here is my sample code, a modified code example from iText.

public void createPdf(String filename) throws IOException, DocumentException {

    Document document = new Document();
    PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(filename));
    document.open();

    //This is simple English Font
    FontFactory.register("c:/temp/fonts/NotoSerif-Bold.ttf", "my_nato_font");
    Font myBoldFont = FontFactory.getFont("my_nato_font");
    BaseFont bf = myBoldFont.getBaseFont();
    document.add(new Paragraph(bf.getPostscriptFontName(), myBoldFont));


    //This is Chinese font


    //Option 1 :
    Font myAdobeTypekit = FontFactory.getFont("SourceHanSansSC-Regular", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);

    //Option 2 :
     /*FontFactory.register("C:/temp/AdobeFonts/source-han-sans-1.001R/OTF/SimplifiedChinese/SourceHanSansSC-Regular.otf", "my_hans_font");
     Font myAdobeTypekit = FontFactory.getFont("my_hans_font", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);*/



    document.add(Chunk.NEWLINE);
    document.add(new Paragraph("高興", myAdobeTypekit));
    document.add(Chunk.NEWLINE);

    //simplified chinese
    document.add(new Paragraph("朝辞白帝彩云间", myAdobeTypekit));
    document.add(Chunk.NEWLINE);

    document.add(new Paragraph("高兴", myAdobeTypekit));
    document.add(new Paragraph("The Source Han Sans Traditional Chinese ", myAdobeTypekit));


    document.close();
}

I downloaded the font files to my machine. I use two approaches

1. To use the equivalent font family in Adobe

2. Embed OTF file in PDF

Using approach 1, I would expect the Chinese characters to be displayed in pdf format, but the English text will be displayed blank for Chinese characters.

When using approach 2, when I try to embed fonts in pdf, and this is not the way I would like to choose, an error occurs when opening pdf.

: http://itextpdf.com/examples/iia.php?id=214

public void createPdf(String filename, boolean appearances, boolean font)
    throws IOException, DocumentException {
    // step 1
    Document document = new Document();
    // step 2
    PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(filename));
    // step 3
    document.open();
    // step 4
    writer.getAcroForm().setNeedAppearances(appearances);
    TextField text = new TextField(writer, new Rectangle(36, 806, 559, 780), "description");
    text.setOptions(TextField.MULTILINE);
    if (font) {
        BaseFont unicode =
            BaseFont.createFont("c:/windows/fonts/arialuni.ttf", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
        text.setExtensionFont(BaseFont.createFont());
        ArrayList<BaseFont> list = new ArrayList<BaseFont>();
        list.add(unicode);
        text.setSubstitutionFonts(list);
        BaseFont f= (BaseFont)text.getSubstitutionFonts().get(0);
        System.out.println(f.getPostscriptFontName());

    }
    text.setText(TEXT);

    writer.addAnnotation(text.getTextField());
    // step 5
    document.close();
}

, c: /windows/fonts/arialuni.ttf C: /temp/fonts/NotoSansCJKtc-Thin.otf, .

public static final String TEXT = "These are the protagonists in 'Hero', a movie by Zhang Yimou:\n"
    + "\u7121\u540d (Nameless), \u6b98\u528d (Broken Sword), "
    + "\u98db\u96ea (Flying Snow), \u5982\u6708 (Moon), "
    + "\u79e6\u738b (the King), and \u9577\u7a7a (Sky).";

Answer 1

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public static final String FONT = "resources/fonts/NotoSansCJKsc-Regular.otf";
public static final String TEXT = "These are the protagonists in 'Hero', a movie by Zhang Yimou:\n"
    + "\u7121\u540d (Nameless), \u6b98\u528d (Broken Sword), "
    + "\u98db\u96ea (Flying Snow), \u5982\u6708 (Moon), "
    + "\u79e6\u738b (the King), and \u9577\u7a7a (Sky).";
public static final String CHINESE = "\u5341\u950a\u57cb\u4f0f";
public static final String JAPANESE = "\u8ab0\u3082\u77e5\u3089\u306a\u3044";
public static final String KOREAN = "\ube48\uc9d1";

public void createPdf(String dest) throws IOException, DocumentException {
    Document document = new Document();
    PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(DEST));
    document.open();
    Font font = FontFactory.getFont(FONT, BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
    Paragraph p = new Paragraph(TEXT, font);
    document.add(p);
    document.add(new Paragraph(CHINESE, font));
    document.add(new Paragraph(JAPANESE, font));
    document.add(new Paragraph(KOREAN, font));
    document.close();
}

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