Re: [PHP-DOC] multibyte characters in pdf manual From: Rui Hirokawa (louis <email protected>)
Date: 10/14/01

Jouni,

Thank you for your effort.

I should try to use internationalized TeX like Omega
to make japanese pdf manual, but I don't have sufficient
time to try now.

I think using fop/xsl is an another good solution.
Please send me some sample file. I will check it.

> On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Rui Hirokawa wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I checked php manual available in www.php.net,
> > I found multibyte characters of php manual in pdf format are
> > completely broken.
> >
> > I don't know about jadetex, but I suspect that
> > it has some problem to process multibyte characters.
>
> Yes, it has. Nobody has yet solved problem, and at least I have tried...
> without any success.
>
> But... there are other tools too. Like Fop, written in Java. And I think I
> have some success with it. Is it ok if I send you a sample off-the-list
> (approx. 300k)? It's far from perfect, Fop is an xsl processor and the
> xsl-stylesheets should be tuned for PHP documentation, but if the
> characters are right, this could be a good reason to start that work.
>
> -- Jouni
>
> 

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