Why is the font not applied when creating a PDF document?

Question

Java

Question. I am creating PDF documents with iText. When I try to enable the "Agenda Tabular Light" font, iText ignores my selection. You can verify this on the File > Properties > Fonts tab in Adobe Reader. The PDF shows that the Helvetica font is being used even though that font was not selected. The colors are displayed but not the font.
My code looks like this:

public static final Font FONT_HEADER = FontFactory.getFont(AGENDA_TABULAR_LIGHT, 18, Font.NORMAL, TITLE_COLOR);

A test was also carried out in the example program.

// step 1
Document document = new Document();
// step 2
PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(filename));
// step 3
document.open();
// step 4: Font font = FontFactory.getFont("Agenda Tabular Light");
System.out.println(font.toString());
document.add(new Phrase("Agenda Tabular Light J j", font));
Font fontbold = FontFactory.getFont("Times-Roman", 12, Font.BOLD);
document.add(new Phrase("Times-Roman, Bold", fontbold));
document.add(Chunk.NEWLINE);
document.close();

The font shown here is Times-Roman, but it actually uses a different font. Every time Helvetica is displayed on the font properties tab in Adobe Reader.

Answer 1

By default FontProgramFactory (FontFactoryin iText 5) only knows type 1 fonts, and the font "garamond bold"is not in this list, so Helvetica is used (Helvetica is the default font in iText).
You can "teach" FontProgramFactoryhow to find other fonts by registering them. You can try the following:
But this is a very costly operation, because here iText looks for font files in different directories in your operating system (for example, in C:/Windows/Fonts). This may take a few seconds, and the output will be many more fonts than necessary (it is possible that the desired font will not be registered).
It's better to register fonts like this.
We tell iText where to find the .ttf file ( "c:/windows/fonts/garabd.ttf") and define an alias for the desired font ("garamond bold"). Now that the font name is registered, it can be used:

PdfFont myBoldFont = PdfFontFactory.createRegisteredFont("garamond bold");