PDFsharp & MigraDoc Foundation

Hi Experts,

I'm trying to generate PDF (Off course using PDFSharp & MigraDoc), where it has to display some Non-English text but what I'm getting instead is set of Garbled characters.

For instance., If I try to display the string "MÍNGUEZ MIRALE", I get some garbled characters at the place of Latin character "Ã" and in text space. It seems like PDFSharp is floundering to parse such characters.

I tried with the sample code in this site and even passed unicode parameter as true to PDFDocumentRenderer constructor.



Fed-up with the above effort, I moved ahead by changing the font type but it seems like Open Type fonts are not loading up. I tried a font "PMingLiU"

Can someone help us regarding this stuff and revert back asap, that would be grateful.

Thanks in advance.

Hi!

Not all Open Type fonts work with the GDI+ build. Maybe try the WPF build.
See also:
http://www.pdfsharp.net/wiki/PostScript_fonts.ashx

All Unicode characters up to 0xffff should work.


Your test string "MÍNGUEZ MIRALE" contains an invisible character after the "Ã" which PDFsharp renders as a rectangle. When you step through the string using Cursor Left and Cursor Right you will notice this extra character. Remove it and the output from PDFsharp will be correct.

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Thomas Hoevel
PDFsharp Team