Indic script like bengali, hindi support in itext for PDF

Hi,
After lot of search over net. I didn't find any solution for support of indic script  in itext for properly  displaying bengali in  PDF. Therefore I tried the following . I hope it may be helpful for those who are trying the same until itext starts supporting indic script.

Here I have converted bengali text to image and displayed in PDF.



import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.*;

import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
//import com.itextpdf.text.Font;
import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.BaseFont;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.draw.LineSeparator;
import com.itextpdf.text.PageSize;
//import com.itextpdf.text.*;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.FontSelector;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.font.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;

public class FontTypes {

    /** The resulting PDF file. */
    public static String RESULT
        = "C:/font_types.pdf";
    /** Some text. */
   public static String TEXT
        = "উত্তরবঙ্গে নয়া ঘাঁটির জমি চায় সেনা";
         public static String TEXT1
        = "সীমান্তে ঘাড়ের কাছে নিঃশ্বাস ফেলছে চিন";


 

    /**
     * Creates a PDF document.
     * @param filename the path to the new PDF document
     * @throws    DocumentException
     * @throws    IOException
     */
    public void createPdf(String filename) throws IOException, DocumentException,FontFormatException {
        // step 1
        Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4,20, 20, 20, 20);
        // step 2
        PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(filename));
        // step 3
        document.open();
        // step 4
     com.itextpdf.text.Image jpeg = com.itextpdf.text.Image.getInstance(textToImage(TEXT,20));
       jpeg.scalePercent(50f);
       document.add(jpeg);
        com.itextpdf.text.Image jpeg1 = com.itextpdf.text.Image.getInstance(textToImage(TEXT1,24));
         jpeg1.scalePercent(50f);
        document.add(jpeg1);
      
               // step 5
        document.close();
    }

    /**
     * Main method.
     *
     * @param    args    no arguments needed
     * @throws DocumentException
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, DocumentException,FontFormatException {
        try{
        new FontTypes().createPdf(RESULT);
        }catch(Exception e){
        e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
  
  
  

public  byte[] textToImage(String text,  float size) throws IOException,FontFormatException{
    //Derives font to new specified size, can be removed if not necessary.
  
    BufferedImage img = new BufferedImage(1, 1, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
    try{
        Graphics2D g2d = img.createGraphics();
     //   Font font = new Font("Arial", Font.PLAIN, 48);
        Font fnt=Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT, new File("c:/windows/fonts/SolaimanLipi.ttf"));
        fnt = fnt.deriveFont(Font.PLAIN,size);
        //System.out.println(fnt.getName());
        //System.out.println(fnt.getNumGlyphs());
        g2d.setFont(fnt);
        FontMetrics fm = g2d.getFontMetrics();
        int width = fm.stringWidth(text);
        int height = fm.getHeight();
        g2d.dispose();

        img = new BufferedImage(width, height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
        g2d = img.createGraphics();
        g2d.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ALPHA_INTERPOLATION, RenderingHints.VALUE_ALPHA_INTERPOLATION_QUALITY);
        g2d.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
        g2d.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_COLOR_RENDERING, RenderingHints.VALUE_COLOR_RENDER_QUALITY);
        g2d.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_DITHERING, RenderingHints.VALUE_DITHER_ENABLE);
        g2d.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_FRACTIONALMETRICS, RenderingHints.VALUE_FRACTIONALMETRICS_ON);
        g2d.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION, RenderingHints.VALUE_INTERPOLATION_BILINEAR);
        g2d.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_RENDERING, RenderingHints.VALUE_RENDER_QUALITY);
        g2d.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_STROKE_CONTROL, RenderingHints.VALUE_STROKE_PURE);
      
        g2d.setFont(fnt);
        fm = g2d.getFontMetrics();
        g2d.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
        g2d.setColor(Color.BLACK);
        g2d.drawString(text, 0, fm.getAscent());
        g2d.dispose();
}catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
    ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
ImageIO.write( img, "png", baos );
baos.flush();
byte[] imageInByte = baos.toByteArray();
baos.close();
  
    return imageInByte;
}
  
}