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PDFsharp Team, hi!
I have a problem: I trying to draw the text on hebrew, but on the PDF my text look as ????????
If you can help me?

Hello!

That's not my area of expertise, but AFAIK PDFsharp does not yet support right-to-left languages.

I started the Character Map application from Windows, chose Arial, selected the Unicode group "Hebrew" and copied some characters to the clipboard.
Then I pasted this string into the Unicode sample that comes with PDF sharp - and I saw Hebrew characters in the PDF file, not question marks.

I cannot say if you can produce Hebrew PDF files with that method, but it sure looks Hebrew to me (but that doesn't mean anything).

Long story short: you can get more than question marks with PDFsharp, but characters may be in the wrong order (LTR, not RTL) and connections between characters may not be correct (not sure if this is a problem with Hebrew, but it sure is a problem with Arabean).

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Thomas Hoevel
PDFsharp Team

Thanks for you reply!

I created a free NuGet package, PdfSharpWithHebrewSupport
, which allows generating PDFs in .NET with proper Hebrew support. Unlike the original PDFsharp, this fork fixes the issue of reversed letters when creating Hebrew text in PDFs.

It’s fully open-source and easy to integrate into any .NET project.