RTL Hebrew/Arabic Unicode PDF Generation

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Softriva .com	Wednesday 18 July 2007 1:32:26 pm Hello, I have spent a day trying to generate pdf in Hebrew or Arabic with no help. I would like to know if it actually possible to generate RTL urf8 pdf? Any suggestions are appreciated.
Softriva .com	Friday 17 August 2007 12:47:57 pm Hello, I am back to this issue again hoping that someone had succeeded in finding a solution for it. I have raised this issue back in Jan with no success. http://ez.no/community/forum/setup_design/pdf_generation_and_utf8_issue
Tony Wood	Sunday 19 August 2007 12:14:51 am Hi OOzy Some background on this. I believe the reason for PDF not working with UTF-8 content is that when the PDF module was added (some time ago now) the original code did not support UTF-8. Now, I do not think that this has changed at all. I would like it to support UTF-8 (UNICODE) I do not remember seeing this being recoded so I think that you will not be able to get this working. As suggestion might be to take the OpenOffice.org export and then run that through a PDF generator. This may give you more luck. I hope this helps Tony Tony Wood : twitter.com/tonywood Vision with Technology Experts in eZ Publish consulting & development Power to the Editor! Free eZ Training : http://www.VisionWT.com/training eZ Future Podcast : http://www.VisionWT.com/eZ-Future

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Wednesday 18 July 2007 1:32:26 pm

Hello,

I have spent a day trying to generate pdf in Hebrew or Arabic with no help. I would like to know if it actually possible to generate RTL urf8 pdf?

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Softriva .com

Friday 17 August 2007 12:47:57 pm

Hello,

I am back to this issue again hoping that someone had succeeded in finding a solution for it.

I have raised this issue back in Jan with no success.

http://ez.no/community/forum/setup_design/pdf_generation_and_utf8_issue

Tony Wood

Sunday 19 August 2007 12:14:51 am

Hi OOzy

Some background on this.

I believe the reason for PDF not working with UTF-8 content is that when the PDF module was added (some time ago now) the original code did not support UTF-8.

Now, I do not think that this has changed at all. I would like it to support UTF-8 (UNICODE)

I do not remember seeing this being recoded so I think that you will not be able to get this working. As suggestion might be to take the OpenOffice.org export and then run that through a PDF generator. This may give you more luck.

I hope this helps

Tony

Tony Wood : twitter.com/tonywood
Vision with Technology
Experts in eZ Publish consulting & development

Power to the Editor!

Free eZ Training : http://www.VisionWT.com/training
eZ Future Podcast : http://www.VisionWT.com/eZ-Future

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