[PHP-I18N] PDF document with Japanese characters From: Durgaprasada Kalluraya (dkalluraya <email protected>)
Date: 05/01/03

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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