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I am confused a bit. I want make & display simple editable and printable some Information Slip module and add to my Java desktop application. I am doing first time something like that and need any advice because of this.

I draw a sample Information Slip in Power Point just for an example. Can be seen at below;

Sample Information Slip

Sender Informations info coming from some GUI Element. Also Service Name, Brand, Model, SeriNo, Sending Date and Product Problem infos.

Question 1: Should i create this Template in Java and fill it? If it yes; which classes can be helpful for this operation?

Question 2: If No; Which model should using for create Template (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and Apache POI can be helpful for reading, displaying and editing template in JAVA Application?

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I use itext library for creating PDF file because has very detailed rendering functions for PDF creation. When user click the button i write a template and fill the blank cells from DB everytime.

Than i use Icepdf library for show to user and taking output of the created pdf file.

But Icepdf has some character encoding problem i think. When PDf created and callled by Icepdf one of Turkish character looks as square. Turkish characters can be seen at this link. All characters rendered succesfully but eighth character at the link is not.

When i go to filepath of created pdf file (created by itext library) and open it manually with Adobe Acrobat Reader all characters showing correctly. But if programaticly Icepdf open the file and show to user, eighth character at the link looks as square.

I need change character encoding of Icepdf but i can't yet. Reading many articles about character and Font encoding of Icepdf but i have not yet succeeded. If i solve this character problem my application ready to deploy.

-- Character Issue Solved --

I solved the special character issue when PDF file shown on screen via IcePdf

If you are not using IcePdf Pro (which support all asian languages etc.) you need embed the third party Font file (which tested all your language's special character support font) when you create PDF file with iText. And IcePdf can use embedded Font file for render and show the document accurately now.

For how embed the Font files to the PDF with iText you should check my last question and answer about that;

Icepdf special character rendering issue

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