@ font-face with Flying Saucer

I’m jumping that someone can help me ... it seems that what I'm trying to do should be pretty simple, but I’ve been struggling with this for more than a day now and don’t know. I found a lot of information about StackOverflow and the Internet in general, but nothing helped me solve this problem.

I am trying to use itext-2.0.8 along with core-renderer-R8 to create a PDF with an embedded font. I am trying to generate a PDF from a valid XHTML and embed a font using the style @ font-face tag. I confirmed that the @ font-face tag enables the font by opening the file in a browser. And I always try to keep the TTF-fiel relative to the XHTML / CSS document.

To try to make my way, I created a small program like Hello World to try to embed a font. I took two separate approaches, and both of them could not achieve the desired result. I posted a copy of this little Eclipse program at http://christopherluft.com/FlyingSaucer.zip

The program creates a PDF file in both copies, but none of them has an embedded PDF file. The first method, using a file with setDocument, does not create errors, but also fonts. The second method creates a PDF file, but java.net.MalformedURLException is displayed in the debug output.

I have tried many permutations of various paths and URLs; however, none of them gives the desired result. My suspicion is that I do not understand something about ITextRenderer.setDocument; however, it is very difficult for me to find the appropriate documentation specific to my use case.

The first method I'm trying to do is:

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, DocumentException {

    System.getProperties().setProperty("xr.util-logging.loggingEnabled",
            "true");
    XRLog.setLoggingEnabled(true);

    String inputFile = "sample.xhtml";
    String url = new File(inputFile).toURI().toURL().toString();
    String outputFile = "firstdoc.pdf";

    OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(outputFile);

    ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer();
    renderer.setDocument(url);
    renderer.layout();
    renderer.createPDF(os);

    os.close();
}

And the second method I use (which is closer to the actual use method in our application):

public static void main(String[] args)  throws IOException, DocumentException {

    System.getProperties().setProperty("xr.util-logging.loggingEnabled", "true");
    XRLog.setLoggingEnabled(true);

    String inputFile = "sample.xhtml";
    String url = new File(inputFile).toURI().toURL().toString();

    DocumentBuilder documentBuilder;
    org.w3c.dom.Document xhtmlContent;

    try 
    {
        documentBuilder = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
        documentBuilder.setEntityResolver(new XhtmlEntityResolver(new SuppressingEntityResolver()));
        xhtmlContent = documentBuilder.parse(url);

        System.out.println(url);

        String outputFile = "firstdoc.pdf";
        OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(outputFile);
        ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer();

        renderer.setDocument(xhtmlContent,".");
        renderer.layout();
        renderer.createPDF(os);

        System.out.println("Finishing up....");
        os.close();
    } 
    catch (SAXException e) 
    {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    } 
    catch (ParserConfigurationException e) 
    {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }   
}

And the inclusion of @ font-face in XHTML looks like this:

@font-face {

    font-family: 'MisoRegular';

    src: url("miso-regular-webfont.ttf");

    -fs-pdf-font-embed: embed;

    -fs-pdf-font-encoding: Identity-H;
}

Now I feel that this is a very common use case, and I believe that I just can’t do one simple step to get this to work ... the problem is that I have been there for a while and I think I can’t see forest through the trees. Any help I can offer would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.