Re: PDF document with Japanese characters

The japanese chacters which I had typed have become qestion marks.
So I am attaching the Image of  the characters.

Thanks in advance


Durgaprasada Kalluraya wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to create a PDF document containing the japanese charcters. But
> I am having problem with that. Some japanese charcters are missing in the
> PDF generated.
>
> The characters which does not get displayed are ?,??etc.
>
> Is this encoding problem or font problem?
>
> I had the same problem while creating a image which had these charcters.
>
> The settings which I am going to use finally are,
>
> 1) The text content, which needs to be put in PDF will come from the
> database.
>
> 2) php.ini file settings are,
>
> gd
>
> GD Support => enabled
> GD Version => 2.0 or higher
> FreeType Support => enabled
> FreeType Linkage => with TTF library
> JPG Support => enabled
> PNG Support => enabled
> WBMP Support => enabled
>
> mbstring
>
> Multibyte Support => enabled
> Japanese support => enabled
>
> Directive => Local Value => Master Value
> mbstring.detect_order => no value => no value
> mbstring.encoding_translation => Off => Off
> mbstring.func_overload => 0 => 0
> mbstring.http_input => pass => pass
> mbstring.http_output => pass => pass
> mbstring.internal_encoding => none => none
> mbstring.language => neutral => neutral
> mbstring.substitute_character => no value => no value
>
> pdf
>
> PDF Support => enabled
> PDFlib GmbH Version => 4.0.3
> Revision => $Revision: 1.112.2.2 $
>
> The PHP code is as follows,
>
> <?php
>
> $fp = fopen( "test.pdf", "w");
> $pdf = PDF_open($fp);
>
> PDF_begin_page($pdf, 400, 200);
>
> pdf_set_text_rendering($pdf, 2);
>
> pdf_set_font($pdf, "HeiseiMin-W3", 30, "EUC-H");
> PDF_show_xy($pdf, "??????????", 10,150);
>
> pdf_set_font($pdf, "HeiseiKakuGo-W5", 30, "EUC-H");
> PDF_show_xy($pdf, "??????????", 10,100);
>
> PDF_end_page($pdf);
> PDF_close($pdf);
> fclose($fp);
> ?>
>
> <a href="test.pdf">finished</a>
>
> How to solve this problem? If it is font related issue how do I install new
> fonts in PDFLib?
>
> If this encoding related issue then I would like read some article about
> encoding coversions and possible character loss. Is there any link
> available?
>
> Can any one help me?

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