On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 10:45 +0200, Vincent den Boer wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm planning to use PoDoFo. I looked through the API docs and everything I 
> need 
> is supported. I also read that the library is Unicode compatible. The only 
> problem is that I have little knowledge of Unicode and C++ since I normally 
> have 
> other libraries deal with encoding issues. I need to read some text from a 
> UTF-8 
> encoded file and display it in a PDF document. Could anyone please give me 
> some 
> pointers on how to do that?

PoDoFo works with utf8 and UTF16BE unicode data in most places where it
matters. You should be able to feed your UTF-8 encoded text straight
into (eg) PdfString.

If all you need to do is create new PDF files, though, there are
alternatives that you might find a better fit for your needs than
PoDoFo. PoDoFo is low level and rather capable in terms of being able to
parse/edit/write PDF, but you need to know a bit about PDF to get the
best out of it. If it'll do what you need, then great. I'd suggest
looking at Cairo <http://cairographics.org/> too, though, as it's
potentially a very good option that's rather easy to use for simple PDF
output.

-- 
Craig Ringer


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