Re: How to load and use unicode fonts?
"John" <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:09:45 -0000
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--jYjnEqjjw-67geJNwNvwNQUEVytdPyewMc1atGQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable API2 is unicode aware. Try using -encode =3D> 'utf8', instead of -encode =3D> 'unicode', in your= font declaration. That works for me. Also, you may find it a lot more st= raightforward to store your Cyrillic text in mysql and read it from the dat= abase into a variable first before adding it to the PDF: e.g. $mytext=3Dgettextfromdb(); $texthandler->text($mytext); --- In [email protected], "swbeitzel" <sbeitzel@...> wr= ote: > > I'm running on a Mac and have a cyrillic font installed at > /sw/lib/X11/fonts/applettf/CharcoalCY.ttf. Here's some code: >=20 > 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"); >=20 > 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? > --jYjnEqjjw-67geJNwNvwNQUEVytdPyewMc1atGQ Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/htm= l4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> </head> <body style=3D"background-color: #fff;"> <span style=3D"display:none"> </span> <!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlStartT|**|-~--> <div id=3D"ygrp-mlmsg" style=3D"position:relative;"> <div id=3D"ygrp-msg" style=3D"z-index: 1;"> <!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlEndT|**|-~--> <div id=3D"ygrp-text" > =20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20 <p><br> <br> API2 is unicode aware.<br> <br> Try using -encode =3D> 'utf8', instead of -encode =3D> 'unicode', i= n your font declaration. That works for me. Also, you may find it a lot m= ore straightforward to store your Cyrillic text in mysql and read it from t= he database into a variable first before adding it to the PDF: e.g.<br> <br> $mytext=3Dgettextfromdb();<br> <br> $texthandler->text($mytext);<br> <br> --- In <a href=3D"mailto:perl-text-pdf-modules%40yahoogroups.com">perl-text= [email protected]</a>, "swbeitzel" <sbeitzel@...>= ; wrote:<br> ><br> > 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->new();<br> > my $page =3D $p->page();<br> > $page->mediabox("LETTER");<br> > $p->addFontDirs("/sw/lib/X11/fonts/applettf");<br> > my %font =3D (<br> > Helvetica =3D> {<br> > Bold =3D> $p->corefont( 'Helvetica-Bold',= <br> > -encoding =3D> 'latin1' ),<br> > Roman =3D> $p->corefont( 'Helvetica',<br> > -encoding =3D> 'latin1' ),<br> > Italic =3D> $p->corefont( 'Helvetica-Obliqu= e',<br> > -encoding =3D> 'latin1' ),<br> > },<br> > Times =3D> {<br> > Bold =3D> $p->corefont( 'Times-Bold',<br> > -encoding =3D> 'latin1' ),<br> > Roman =3D> $p->corefont( 'Times',<br> > -encoding =3D> 'latin1' ),<br> > Italic =3D> $p->corefont( 'Times-Italic',<b= r> > -encoding =3D> 'latin1' ),<br> > },<br> > Cyrillic =3D> {<br> > Bold =3D> $p->ttfont('CharcoalCY.ttf', -e= ncoding<br> > =3D> 'unicode' ),<br> > },<br> > );<br> > my $texthandler =3D $page->text();<br> > $texthandler->font($font{'Cyrillic'}{'Bold'}, 12 /pt);<br> > $texthandler->fillcolor("black");<br> > $texthandler->translate(0.5/in, 10.25/in);<br> > $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");<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. 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