That answer may change as PDFBox (which this project is built on top of) 2.0 claims to have full Unicode support, which previous versions did not have. It's currently in Release-Candidate #3. I haven't had a chance to try it yet. Here's the fixed issue that I think should make what you want possible. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-922
could I change encoding in PdfLayoutManager? I need croatian charachters like čšćžđ.