PDF generation - has anyone ever made it work?

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zurgutt -

Monday 05 February 2007 6:02:52 pm

I have a 3.8.3 site with content in utf-8. Content is mainly in norwegian.

In generated PDF the accented norwegian chars are garbage.

This bug has been unfixed for nearly TWO YEARS: http://issues.ez.no/6574

I have tried the suggested fixes in comments of this bug, best I could do was to convert title and main content back to readable iso-8859-1 using patch by Valentin Doroschuk. No luck with footer and anyway this would not work for any other language which does have all its chars in iso-8859-1. Setting PDF output to utf-8 crashes it.

Additionally sometimes output is not generated depending on page content - it especially seems to not like tables, most pages with a table in content have blank pdf's.

Has anyone worked around these bugs successfully? If so I'd be very thankful for a patch or some kind of instructions.. I have tried to look at code but not knowing anything about pdf encoding it is far too complex to find problems for me..

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Kristof Coomans

Monday 05 February 2007 11:35:57 pm

I know it's a bit cumbersome, but maybe an extra step to ODF can be easier ( http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/01/11/from-microsoft-to-openoffice.html ).

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zurgutt -

Tuesday 06 February 2007 3:49:46 am

It crossed my mind actually. Export of ez to OpenOffice format supposedly works (never tried myself) and i know that OO can export pdf too, probably reliably. Has someone gone this path? Hints about setup would be helpful.

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J-A Eberhard

Tuesday 06 February 2007 7:51:33 am

Having the same problem with UTF-8 and pdf export.
As you did I tried the hack provided in the bug report but I had finally to get back to non-UTF-8 format for portal in need of PDF generation.
Hoping that the integration of an OOo convertion engine in eZ will solve it.

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