IText: registering font: not found as file or resource

Question

I am developing on windows plattform. My maven project has the following structure for font resources:

src/main/resources/package/name/fonts

I try to register a font as following:

FontFactory.register("package/name/fonts/fontname.otf");

But I get the error:

package/name/fonts/fontname.otf not found as file or resource

What is my failure?

Thank you

Answer 1

First I get the correct path with getResource():

String pathtofont = "/package/name/fonts/fontname.otf";
String fontname = myworkingclass.class.getResource(pathtofont).toString();

then I get it registerd:

FontFactory.register(fontname);

Important is that the path to font starts with a /.