Hi,

I have problems with write UTF-8 strings in russian language, for ex. "Русский язык") to PDF file - some chars are not processed.

Notice: iconv() [function.iconv]: Detected an illegal character in input string in ...library/Zend/Pdf/Resource/Font.php on line 522


A similar problem has been here:
PDF file with UTF-8 string

Therefore, ask again:
Please, how can I generate PDF file from UTF-8 strings with national characters?

thanks.

I use this and work well:
$text = utf8_encode("é, ó, ññ ");
$page->drawText($text, '100', '200');

I Hope that it helps you.

Hey, I've got a smiliar Problem!

I want to export chinese words, but none of them are beeing shown in the pdf-document.

The reason is, that the included font-types don't support those special chars.

Is this a bug or where can I get FREE and WORKING font-types?

The best would be, if they'd work for all languages, but "ARIAL UNICODE MS" for example makes ZEND FRAMEWORK throwing an Exception...

Any Ideas???

ZF-Version is 1.5 RC1

The Exception-warning


Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Zend_Pdf_Exception' with message 'Attempt to move beyond end of data source' in /daten/webserver/php-lib/Zend/Pdf/FileParserDataSource.php:183 Stack trace: #0 /daten/webserver/php-lib/Zend/Pdf/FileParserDataSource/File.php(176): Zend_Pdf_FileParserDataSource->moveToOffset(24131012) #1 /daten/webserver/php-lib/Zend/Pdf/FileParserDataSource.php(202): Zend_Pdf_FileParserDataSource_File->moveToOffset(24131012) #2 /daten/webserver/php-lib/Zend/Pdf/FileParser.php(209): Zend_Pdf_FileParserDataSource->skipBytes(16) #3 /daten/webserver/php-lib/Zend/Pdf/FileParser/Font/OpenType.php(393): Zend_Pdf_FileParser->skipBytes(16) #4 /daten/webserver/php-lib/Zend/Pdf/FileParser/Font/OpenType.php(120): Zend_Pdf_FileParser_Font_OpenType->_parsePostTable() #5 /daten/webserver/php-lib/Zend/Pdf/FileParser/Font/OpenType/TrueType.php(80): Zend_Pdf_FileParser_Font_OpenType->parse() #6 /daten/webserver/php-lib/Zend/Pdf/Font.php(747): Zend_Pdf_FileParser_Font_OpenType_TrueType->parse() #7 /daten/webserver/php-lib/Zend in /daten/webserver/php-lib/Zend/Pdf/FileParserDataSource.php on line 183
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You helped me by putting me on the right track .
I'm in an utf8 environment so a slight adjustment works for me:
code):
I'm not entirely sure but I guess you would get a truetype font put in a directory on your server (say 'www/fonts/my-special-font.ttf').
Then you create a font like this: (use the fontWithPath() method).
This worked for me.

First, I recommend upgrading to the final 1.5 release. 1.5.1 is almost upon us, and it will pay to be up to date on this branch.

If you haven't seen this, check out the Zend_PDF part of the docs where it talks about fonts: Zend Framework: Documentation

You can use any font you want, provided you stay with in the supported font types (TTF Type 1 is the most universal).

If you know of a font that falls within the guidelines on the docs, and that you have available to you - just copy it to your project, and provide the full path to it when you call Zend_Pdf_Font::fontWithPath()

HTH

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HI, xentek!
I've got a question about chinese word too!

When I use Zend_Pdf_Font::fontWithPath('www/fonts/my-special-font.ttf') to embed chinese font into Pdf-document,
it can normally shown , but the File-size become very big.

Any way can I subset embed or don't embed , but let my char normally output ?

I have the same problem with chinese characters... The font weights 15 meg so I can not embed it in the document.

I posted question about that in another thread.

I am really not sure there is a solution so I considered either create a TTF myself containing only the characters I use.
Or render the typo in images and embed the images in the PDF.

If anybody has a solution it would save my life