You need to create a jarper jarper fonts jarper and put it in your classpath, both compile time (when compiling jrxmls) and runtime (when running reports). Here's what the jar looks like (e.g. jasperreports-fonts-5.5.2.jar ):
jasperreports_extension.properties should contain several properties for initializing fonts. (I used spring-based font initialization. You may need to add a couple of spring packages, such as spring -core, spring-beans, etc. To your classpath, if not already present.)
net.sf.jasperreports.extension.registry.factory.fonts=net.sf.jasperreports.extensions.SpringExtensionsRegistryFactory net.sf.jasperreports.extension.fonts.spring.beans.resource=fonts/fonts_def.xml
Now fonts.xml will determine which fonts you want to add.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd"> <bean id="fontBean001" class="net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fonts.SimpleFontFamily"> <property name="name" value="Tahoma"/> <property name="normal" value="fonts/Tahoma.ttf"/> <property name="bold" value="fonts/Tahoma_Bold.ttf"/> <property name="pdfEmbedded" value="true"/> </bean> <bean id="fontBean002" class="net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fonts.SimpleFontFamily"> <property name="name" value="Arial"/> <property name="normal" value="fonts/Arial.ttf"/> <property name="bold" value="fonts/Arial_Bold.ttf"/> <property name="italic" value="fonts/Arial_Italic.ttf"/> <property name="boldItalic" value="fonts/Arial_Bold_Italic.ttf"/> <property name="pdfEmbedded" value="true"/> </bean> </beans>
Note that the "pdfEmbedded" property is "true" . Finally add the .ttf file for the fonts you want to add to the jar.