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But first, here’s a short explanation of how pdfCalligraph works.

In this article, we’ll demonstrate how you can use pdfCalligraph with iText to create a PDF containing text using different languages. For detailed information about the inherent difficulties of supporting multiple languages and writing systems in the PDF standard, and the powerful and unique solutions pdfCalligraph provides, we recommend reading the pdfCalligraph white paper. However, we decided to go a step further and created pdfCalligraph, a commercially licensed add-on module for the iText 7 library which was specifically designed to support many more languages and writing systems, and like iText 7 it's available for both the Java and. So, for iText 7 we went back to the drawing board to provide OpenType support for advanced font features in PDF documents. Earlier versions of the iText PDF library were already able to render Chinese, Japanese and Korean glyphs in PDF documents, but to correctly display right-to-left scripts like Hebrew and Arabic, we needed the information provided by OpenType fonts to help with handling the complexities of all the world's writing systems.