insert arabic into pdf using itex java nullpointerException

Question

i want to insert text arabic in pdf using itext

  ColumnText column = new ColumnText(canvas);  
        column.go();
        column.setSimpleColumn(36, 36, 559, 806);                       
        column.setRunDirection(PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_RTL);
        column.addElement(new Paragraph("الاسم العائلي      : ", fontAR));                   
     column.go();

Answer 1

Remove the first column.go() because it doesn't make sense:

1. You didn't add any content yet, so there is nothing to render.
2. You didn't define a Rectangle yet, so there will be an error because iText doesn't know where to render this nothing.

Answer 2

Can you try this: String str = new String("الاسم العائلي :".getBytes("ISO-8859-1"),"utf-8"); Then add the string str to your itext paragraph:

column.addElement(new Paragraph(str, fontAR));