I have used dom pdf class in codeigniter to create html to pdf creation. But this dom pdf doesn't support turkish character. Is there any pdf plugin that support turkish character.
Thanks
Shylaja
To support the Turkish language in DOMPDF, a Turkish character uses the dejavu font
.turkish
{
font-family: 'dejavu sans';
}
download the font from below link
http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Download
and copy to folder dompdf/lib/fonts
dom pdf support turkish character by using dejavu
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I am trying to export to PDF using FPDF and TCPDF php library. I found that the emojis like 😁 😀 💃🏻 ❤️ 🥳 where not converted. Only ️️some rectangle box there in generated pdf. I also tried tfpdf.
$text = "There is my text 😁 , 😀 and emojis 💃🏻 ❤️ 🥳";
require('tfpdf/tfpdf.php');
$pdf = new tFPDF();
$pdf->AddPage();
//Add a Unicode font (uses UTF-8)
$pdf->AddFont('Segoe UI Symbol','','seguisym.ttf',true); // DejaVuSans.ttf
$pdf->SetFont('Segoe UI Symbol','',12);
$pdf->Write(8,$text);
$pdf->Output();
I also tried different font. But didn't work for me. Can any one help me in this regard?
Sadly fPDF, TCPDF nor tFPDF can't print those characters. Issue is, these characters are not part of BMP, they are expressed with surrogate pairs, meaning they behave like multiple characters in UTF-16 (because of that one emoticon is printed as 2 rectangle boxes, not one) and also they have codepoint above 65535. However all mentioned PDF libraries relies on codepoint index being <= 65535 as well as TFontFile class reading TTF files.
You would also need to add TTF file having complete set of Unicode charset, or at least emoticons. Most fonts does not have it. This brings another issue for PDF library, which would probably need to have support for fallback font, which will be used when codepoint is not found in main font (for example you want to print text in Gotham, but since that does not include emoji, use other font for them). Btw for example emoji font "Noto Color Emoji" has 23 MB TTF file. So it gets big easily.
Anyway, all of the above can be added to PDF libraries, but it will require some effort. I am planning to do it for my needs as well sometimes. I think it will take roughly 1 man day.
Alternativelly, you might try something more robust like mPDF, but that library is huge, slow and require complete rewrite of your fPDF code. Also can't guarantee it can print emojis as well.
I am using fpdf in php for developing pdf. I have to include some static Arabic or Farsi text to this pdf. I had used
$farsi_txt = iconv('UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-5', html_entity_decode('حضور محترم'));
$pdf->Write(5,$farsi_txt);
But the output was Blank.
When I had displayed it directly
$pdf->Write(5,'فغانستان کابل');
then the out put was like ٕغانستان کابل
When I had created a window to insert the arabic text to database then the output was حضور محترم
Is there any way to display this text as Arabic or Farsi in fpdf?
Found the answer for my question. I had replaced FPDF with TCPDF. TCPDF provides special fonts for Arabic and Farsi languages. I had got the correct output using TCPDF. I simply done this by switching font and $tpdf->setRTL(false); this sets the right to left alignment if arabic words.
TCPDF Download link
take a look here. This page specifically talks about adding new Fonts and encodings, which I believe is the issue as the PDF is missing the Arabic font and is unable to find a replacement for characters.
I'm writing a PDF exporter for a Slovak web page. My DB is UTF-8 encoding.
Some characters from the DB are converted correctly, some are not, here is the example:
input from DB: ôňúäéíáýážťčššľĽŠČĎŽŇÁÍÚĹŤÉŽŹÝ
output in PDF: ônúäéíáýážtcššlLŠCDŽNÁÍÚLTÉŽ´ZÝ
font used: Helvetica
Basic code for PDF write:
$pdf = new Fpdi('P', 'mm', 'A4');
...
$pdf->SetX(14);
$pdf->write(40, iconv('UTF-8', 'windows-1252//TRANSLIT//IGNORE', $invoiceDetails->getCompanyName()));
...
// return output for preview
return $pdf->Output('I');
I've tried at least 10 encodings but none of them was able to give me all characters.
Thank you for your help.
The standard fonts in FPDF only support cp1252 (aka windows-1252) encoding. So changing the encoding of your text to any other encoding doesn't change a thing.
You should prepare a special font with an ISO-8859-2 encoding and convert your text to this encoding before passing it to the methods of FPDF. The whole font generation process is described here.
I'm generating some order confirmations using FPDF library, which works great. But now I need some Chinese characters in the document. I have searching for many hours by now and have found no workable solution. Is it possible supporting Chinese characters using FPDF or is there an alternative to FPDF which will support it?
All the characters are mixed with regular text and are stored in a MySQL database. The PDF document only show unicode when printing the Chinese characters.
There exist Chinese encoding formats like Big5 or GBK. However, more likely than not, the text you are trying to input is in Unicode. There exists tFPDF, which provides Unicode support. I will test printing the following traditional hanzi: 中國. This means China, for those reading who do not know.
// Remember to copy msjh.ttf to [path to tFPDF]/font/unifont/ directory
// Initialize tFPDF
require('tfpdf.php');
$pdf = new tFPDF();
$pdf->AddPage();
// Add a Unicode font like MSJH
$pdf->AddFont('MSJH','','msjh.ttf',true);
$pdf->SetFont('MSJH','',42);
// Output Chinese string to PDF
$pdf->Text(12,42,"中國");
// Output PDF document
$pdf->Output();
Another alternative is the Code200365k TTF
$pdf->AddFont('Code200365k','','Code200365k.ttf',true);
I use it for Chinese characters only as follows:
if (preg_match("/[\x{4e00}-\x{9fa5}]+/u", $my_value)){
$pdf->SetFont('Code200365k','',12);
}
$pdf->Cell(130,9,$my_value,1,1,'L');
$pdf->SetFont('Arial','',11);
I am using TCPDF to generate multilingual content PDF in PHP. I am using TCPDF and using font 'cid0jp' but It is forcing user to download language pack for adobe reader.
Is there any way to generate multilingual pdf without enforcing user to download any langauge pack?
Yes, there's a way. I just had the same issue. Why Adobe Reader is asking for the language pack i don't know.
But i know that the best way to create multilingual PDFs is to use the Arial Unicode MS-Font which is included in windows. That's the font with the most characters according to wikipedia!! But there's no Bold or Italics. You can buy a Arial Unicode Bold from http://www.linotype.com/en/817674/ArialUnicode-family.html#.
I use the Arial MS Unicode-Font with chinese, japanese, cyrilic. For western languages i use the normal Arial so i have italics and bold.
An other possibility is to use for each language a own font which is made for this language.
To make the Arial MS Unicode to work with tcpdf follow the steps on the answer of this Question: Creating PDFs using TCPDF that supports all languages especially CJK
I hope i could help...
Use html2pdf for multilingual.
I tried with this and it worked for me.I developed site for (English/Japanese)
Used font arialunicid0 for multilingual.
require_once('Classes/library/html2pdf.class.php');
//$html2pdf = new HTML2PDF('P', 'A4', 'en');
$html2pdf = new HTML2PDF('P', 'A4', 'en', true, 'UTF-8');
$html2pdf->setDefaultFont('arialunicid0');
$html2pdf->pdf->SetDisplayMode('fullpage');
$html2pdf->writeHTML($content, isset($_GET['vuehtml']));
$filename = $filename .'_'.date('Ymd');
$html2pdf->Output($filename.'.pdf','D');
It download file with Japanese text.
Only problem I facing here with file name.
IF I pass Japanese character for file name it downloads file with blank name.