Printing module - PDF generating makes national chars unreadable

[Vin]

Hello,

I've got this issue with printing module - national chars (in my case řčůňěďáíš) are in the PDF generated as squares. Am I the only one having this problem?

Regards,

Vin

[Vin]

bump

[vilkis]

If you have this issue then do the following:

set PDF_FONT_NAME_MAIN and PDF_FONT_NAME_DATA to FreeSerif in /modules/Printing/tcpdf/config/tcpdf_config.php

i.e.:

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/**
	 * main font name
	 */
	define ("PDF_FONT_NAME_MAIN", "FreeSerif"); //vera
	
	//............................
	
	/**
	 * data font name
	 */
	define ("PDF_FONT_NAME_DATA", "FreeSerif"); //vera

Vilkis

[nuno]

hi
please provide us cmsms verision a module version!

Best Regards

[vilkis]

is it necessary in this case??? 

CMS Made Simple 1.2.5 "Free Hill", module Printing 0.2.1

Vilkis

[reneh]

it works here!

[nuno]

is it necessary in this case??? 

CMS Made Simple 1.2.5 "Free Hill", module Printing 0.2.1

Vilkis

I have a question:

Vilkis and  Vin  it is same persone?

[vilkis]

  -  NO!

[Silmarillion]

the freeserif font is not included in the distribution as my experience was that foreign chars worked in vera. I'm from a country with strange "chars" myself and they always worked with vera, but if freeserif or freesans is more general, I have no problem switching to that!
Would that solve the problem?

m.

[vilkis]

I forgot to mention that I updated tcpdf (PHP class that is used by Printing module) from original site. The Printing module should be also uptdated when the tcpdf update is released.


Vera does not have as many foreign chars as freeserif.
Silmarillion, if you look at http://www.tecnick.com/pagefiles/tcpdf/example_008.phps you will see that Freeserif is used in that example. Try to replace FreeSerif with vera in that example and you will see how foreing chars works in vera.

Vilkis

[Silmarillion]

I will check it out, thank you!

I do actually keep tcpdf updated, but they release new updates extremely often, sometimes every day, so I may not always do it at once.

m.

[vilkis]

Silmarillion, I do not force you to update printing module every day. 

Useful module! I use it for generating PDF not only from content.
I can choose among  exporting appropriate data to PDF or Excel, now.
I choose exporting to Excel if I have more than 4 columns in table, because PDF is not generated correctly in this case. However I almost found how to fix it in tcpdf module.

Vilkis

[Silmarillion]

Hi VIlkis, I updated the printing module today! Please test svn-version!

regards
Morten

[vilkis]

Thank you but I do not know how to use SVN 

Vilkis

[Silmarillion]

that't ok... version 1.3 of the cms will come out in a few days, and with that the new version of the Printing-module. I've had several reports, that it works.

Stay tuned!

m.