Unicode Export to PDF

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• Gordon Turner

  February 2009 edited 3:33AM

  I should add that I am using Delphi 2009 and FR 4.7.57. For example, the database contains Greek characters. In preview mode, the characters are displayed correctly...
  
  
  
  but when I generate the PDF from the preview window the characters are gibberish...
  
  
  
  So is this a bug in the PDF export or is there a setting I need to use to get the Greek characters to display correctly in the PDF. (If I create a PDF from Word using Adobe 6.0, the Greek characters are displayed correctly.)
  
  
• gordk St.Catherines On. Canada.

  February 2009 edited 3:33AM

  Gordon i am not sure if this will help or not try embedding the fonts.
  another approach is to use a program like scansoft's/nuance's pdf creator which installs as a printer driver
  and use it to print the report.
• Gordon Turner

  February 2009 edited 3:33AM

  Embedding the fonts does not help. This is for a product I sell internationally, and so I need a solution that I can distribute with the application, preferably as a part of the reporting software.
  
  Saving reports to a PDF supporting unicode is a big part of why I am investigating Fast Reports over my current solution (it has the same problem). So, is this a problem that you expect to fix or is an external solution the way to resolve the problem?
• MSch.

  February 2009 edited February 2009

  i have the same problem, the support wrote:"... But PDF export do not support unicode. We are work for it..."
  nice... [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="mad.gif" /> best mathias[/img]
• udi

  March 2009 edited 3:33AM

  Hello,
  I have the same problem with Chinese Unicode character .. Fast-Report, actually, does not export to PDF in Unicode.
  The solution may be found in a third party that built a component that export from Fast-Report to PDF (in Unicode) , like
  eDocEngine from Gnostice - but it is not yet ready as well.
  If you have other solution(s) - let me know.
  Udi.

  Gordon Turner wrote: »

  Embedding the fonts does not help. This is for a product I sell internationally, and so I need a solution that I can distribute with the application, preferably as a part of the reporting software.
  
  Saving reports to a PDF supporting unicode is a big part of why I am investigating Fast Reports over my current solution (it has the same problem). So, is this a problem that you expect to fix or is an external solution the way to resolve the problem?
• dergen

  April 2009 edited 3:33AM

  I too have this problem is serious for my development not to be able to export Unicode in PDF (Chinese, Japanese, other...)!
  
  When the solution is vital for me!