Hi,
we use wPDF 4 (from 02/23/2022) with Delphi 10.4.
Special characters are not correctly adopted in PDFs created with wPDF.
For example, this is one of the characters: ■
https://www.compart.com/de/unicode/U+25A0
In the PDF, this character is then displayed like this: ¦
Which wPDF configuration may still need to be adjusted?
Thank you in advance for your help
Regards,
Christian
If you use unicodes you need to use the CIDFont embedding.
For special symbol fonts ist is better to assign there name to the Type3Font list so they are converted to glyphs.
It is known that windows allow all kind of symbols in any text - it will select the matching font from all installed fonts. That happens intransparently and cannot be reproduced by wPDF. So only glyphs can be exported which are actually in the font file - unless you use the Type3 method.
Thank you for the hints.
I tried the following settings:
CidFontMode := wpCIDUnicode;
FontMode := wpEmbedType3 / wpEmbedCIDFonts / wpEmbedTrueTypeFonts;With Type3 I have also added the fonts I use to the font list.
Type3Fonts.Add('Arial');
Type3Fonts.Add('Arial MT');
Type3Fonts.Add('Arial Unicode MS');
Type3Fonts.Add('Arial BoldMT');
Type3Fonts.Add('Verdana');Unfortunately I haven't had any success with it.
I see that the PDF files become relatively large with the settings. Therefore I assume that the fonts are included.
When I look at the properties of the PDF in Acrobat Reader, I see that the encoding of the individual fonts used is always "user-defined".
For PDFs created with other programs, "ANSI" or "Supplied" is there, for example. So I guess that's where the problem lies.
But where can you set the encoding?
What am I doing wrong?
I doubt the character #25A0 is in the font file.
Usually
FontMode := wpEmbedType3
will do the trick. Just tested with the current wPDF V5.
And I also tested wpEmbedCIDFonts .
Copied this from the PDF: AAA■AAAA
Unfortunately the options don't help in my case.
Can I possibly download a demo version of wpdf5 and test it with me? I saw that the website currently only has the demo for version 4.
Please export a metafile of your output (wPDF.DebugMode := true) and send it to me via e-mail. I can then feed it in to the engine to check what's wrong.
I have sent the e-mail...
thanks!
Please make sure to set the properties of the wPDF component before any call to BeginDoc.