How to use System Font in iTextSharp with VB.net?

Can someone help me with writing the code to use a system font?

I'm using Itextsharp to convert text files to PDF documents dynamically using VB.net. However I need to use a system font that is not part of the iTextSharp library. I've seen some code examples using C#. However I'm a newbie in programming and my experience is all in Visual Basic. Can someone help me with writing the code to use a system font?

Posted on StackOverflow on May 2, 2015 by Don Wilson

I'll give you iText 7 code in Java, but it can be easily converted to C# as the terminology is identical.

Suppose that you want to use Arial regular and you have the file arial.ttf in your C:\windows\fonts directory, then creating the Font object is as easy as this:

JAVA

PdfFont font = PdfFontFactory.createFont("c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf", PdfEncodings.IDENTITY_H, true);

Using the font is easy too:

JAVA

PdfDocument pdfDoc = new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter(dest));
Paragraph p = new Paragraph("Hello World in Arial").setFont(font);
Document doc = new Document(pdfDoc).add(p);
doc.close();

This is almost a literal translation of the Java and C# examples that can be found in abundance. If this doesn't solve your problem, please show what you've tried and explain why it doesn't work.