Antw: Re: [xwiki-users] Special Characters in PDF

[Gunter Leeb]

Hi Vincent,

It is very likely that this issue is related, but it is not an issue with extended UTF characters like Asian characters. AFAIK the mentioned characters are all fine in LATIN1. I have attached a pdf for you all to see what I mean. 

The fact that the fonts are also very different between in XWiki and in the PDF was another issue.

Regards,

Gunter

>>> Vincent Massol <vincent at massol.net> 18.06.2007 11:36 >>>
Hi Gunter,

On Jun 14, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Gunter Leeb wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are running Xwiki 1.0 using the German local.
>
> Today, I noticed that if a page contains special German characters  
> like öäß, the PDF is not able to handle diese Characters correctly.

Could it be related to http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-49? 

> This was already an issue with 0.940 and I thought, it had already  
> been resolved. Could it have something to do with runing with the  
> German de local (set in XWikiPreferences)? How do I fix this issue?
>
> Also, the fonts used in the PDF are totally different from the page  
> in XWiki. How do I configure the PDF Engine to generate pages more  
> similar to the XWiki pages (Albatross-skin)?

Regarding the fonts, I don't know. Maybe it's defined in the  
xhtml2fo.xsl file inside the xwiki JAR?

The PDF generation is implemented in the PdfExportImpl.java class if  
you're interested to dive into this.

There are some pdf*.vm files which can be customized but you probably  
won't be able to change fonts in there.

Thanks
-Vincent




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