Printing croatian text in a PDF using iText for Java

Question

Well, I have some records in my database and one of those have a character Đ wich is croatian.

The record in the database is correct and when I display it in a grid in JSF/Primefaces the character is diplayed perfectly.

But, when I print it in a PDF using iText the Đ is missing.

I red a lot of manuals including "iText in Action 2nd edition" and try every tip but nothing works.

The manual says that if you put writer.getAcroForm().setNeedAppearances(true); the system will try to render the "image" of the character but it doesnt work.

So far I am tryng with another aproach, I downloaded a Croatian ttf file and this is my current status

 BaseFont CROACIA  =BaseFont.createFont("C:\\CroatiaHrvatska.ttf",BaseFont.WINANSI, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
CROATA =  new Font(CROACIA, 12);

Document documento = new Document();

ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

            PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(documento, baos);


            writer.setInitialLeading(20);


            documento.open();



                String frase ="Đaniel";
                documento.add(new Paragraph(frase, CROATA));

Then I close the document and dowload it as PDF, it works but the Đ is still gone (so are most of the text to).

I tried using ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 as characters as some people suggested in other questions at SO but it doesnt work.