How to load and use unicode fonts?

"swbeitzel" <[email protected]> Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:08:33 -0000
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I'm running on a Mac and have a cyrillic font installed at
/sw/lib/X11/fonts/applettf/CharcoalCY.ttf. Here's some code:

       my $p =3D PDF::API2->new();
       my $page =3D $p->page();
       $page->mediabox("LETTER");
       $p->addFontDirs("/sw/lib/X11/fonts/applettf");
       my %font =3D (
                 Helvetica =3D> {
                     Bold   =3D> $p->corefont( 'Helvetica-Bold',
-encoding =3D> 'latin1' ),
                     Roman  =3D> $p->corefont( 'Helvetica',
-encoding =3D> 'latin1' ),
                     Italic =3D> $p->corefont( 'Helvetica-Oblique',
-encoding =3D> 'latin1' ),
                 },
                 Times =3D> {
                     Bold   =3D> $p->corefont( 'Times-Bold',
-encoding =3D> 'latin1' ),
                     Roman  =3D> $p->corefont( 'Times',
-encoding =3D> 'latin1' ),
                     Italic =3D> $p->corefont( 'Times-Italic',
-encoding =3D> 'latin1' ),
                 },
                 Cyrillic =3D> {
                     Bold   =3D> $p->ttfont('CharcoalCY.ttf', -encoding
=3D> 'unicode' ),
                 },
             );
       my $texthandler =3D $page->text();
       $texthandler->font($font{'Cyrillic'}{'Bold'}, 12 /pt);
       $texthandler->fillcolor("black");
       $texthandler->translate(0.5/in, 10.25/in);
       $texthandler->text("=D0=9A=D0=98=D0=A0=D0=98=D0=9B=D0=9B=D0=98=D0=A6=
=D0=90 =D0=BA=D0=B8=D1=80=D0=B8=D0=BB=D0=BB=D0=B8=D1=86=D0=B0");

However, when I generate the PDF, I don't see the cyrillic letters, I
just see garbage, as if the string being drawn were going to latin1
code points instead of being treated as UTF-8. Is PDF::API2 not
unicode aware?


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      <p>I'm running on a Mac and have a cyrillic font installed at<br>
/sw/lib/X11/fonts/applettf/CharcoalCY.ttf. Here's some code:<br>
<br>
my $p =3D PDF::API2-&gt;new();<br>
       my $page =3D $p-&gt;page();<br>
       $page-&gt;mediabox(&quot;LETTER&quot;);<br>
       $p-&gt;addFontDirs(&quot;/sw/lib/X11/fonts/applettf&quot;);<br>
       my %font =3D (<br>
                 Helvetica =3D&gt; {<br>
                     Bold   =3D&gt; $p-&gt;corefont( 'Helvetica-Bold',<br>
-encoding =3D&gt; 'latin1' ),<br>
                     Roman  =3D&gt; $p-&gt;corefont( 'Helvetica',<br>
-encoding =3D&gt; 'latin1' ),<br>
                     Italic =3D&gt; $p-&gt;corefont( 'Helvetica-Oblique',<b=
r>
-encoding =3D&gt; 'latin1' ),<br>
                 },<br>
                 Times =3D&gt; {<br>
                     Bold   =3D&gt; $p-&gt;corefont( 'Times-Bold',<br>
-encoding =3D&gt; 'latin1' ),<br>
                     Roman  =3D&gt; $p-&gt;corefont( 'Times',<br>
-encoding =3D&gt; 'latin1' ),<br>
                     Italic =3D&gt; $p-&gt;corefont( 'Times-Italic',<br>
-encoding =3D&gt; 'latin1' ),<br>
                 },<br>
                 Cyrillic =3D&gt; {<br>
                     Bold   =3D&gt; $p-&gt;ttfont('CharcoalCY.ttf', -encodi=
ng<br>
=3D&gt; 'unicode' ),<br>
                 },<br>
             );<br>
       my $texthandler =3D $page-&gt;text();<br>
       $texthandler-&gt;font($font{'Cyrillic'}{'Bold'}, 12 /pt);<br>
       $texthandler-&gt;fillcolor(&quot;black&quot;);<br>
       $texthandler-&gt;translate(0.5/in, 10.25/in);<br>
       $texthandler-&gt;text(&quot;=D0=9A=D0=98=D0=A0=D0=98=D0=9B=D0=9B=D0=
=98=D0=A6=D0=90 =D0=BA=D0=B8=D1=80=D0=B8=D0=BB=D0=BB=D0=B8=D1=86=D0=B0&quot=
;);<br>
<br>
However, when I generate the PDF, I don't see the cyrillic letters, I<br>
just see garbage, as if the string being drawn were going to latin1<br>
code points instead of being treated as UTF-8. Is PDF::API2 not<br>
unicode aware?<br>
<br>
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