sounds like something in the pdf code is effecting what it put in the output file. I did a google on pdf output not chinesses there are hits that explain this bug
Jacopo Cappellato sent the following on 8/12/2007 10:52 AM: > I can see the right characters in the html page, but not in the PDF page... > > Jacopo > > BJ Freeman wrote: >> there can be many things that effect this. >> first is if they pdf is creating the correct code-set for the character. >> Second is if the Language is selected for the OS. >> third is if the fonts sets that support that language are loaded. >> >> >> Jacopo Cappellato sent the following on 8/9/2007 12:53 AM: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I know this is not probably an OFBiz related issue but I know that we >>> have several Chinese users and maybe this can be of interest for >>> others... >>> I'm having issues displaying Chinese characters in the OFBiz PDF reports >>> (invoice, order etc...) created with xsl-fo: they appear as '####'. >>> >>> I did some research in the Internet and the problem seems related to the >>> font family used that doesn't include the Chinese fonts. >>> I have tried to set a different font-family in the template's fo:root >>> element, but unfortunately I couldn't find a font family that supports >>> the Chinese characters (e.g. I've tried with Arial in an Ubuntu box). >>> >>> I've also found some instructions on how to generate an ad-hoc xml file >>> with the necessary font family description, to be embedded in the pdf >>> reports by FOP... but the steps were not very clear to me (especially, >>> how to map them to the OFBiz framework). >>> >>> Any hints on how I can solve this issue? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> Jacopo >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > > > >
