What makes you think that Helvetica supports those characters/glyphs? It does not. You need a font that does.
Leonard -----Original Message----- From: Ismael Schellemberg [mailto:ischellemb...@infragistics.com] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 12:11 PM To: podofo-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Podofo-users] PdfPainter + japanese characters Hello, I'm having problems drawing japanese (and russian, arabic, etc) characters when trying to draw a FreeText annotation using PdfPainter This is the code I'm using font = document->CreateFont("Helvetica"); font->SetFontSize(15); painter.SetColor(0, 0, 0); pdf_utf8 *utf8 = (unsigned char *)"こんばんは"; painter.DrawText(xOffset, yOffset, PdfString(utf8)); This works well with regular characters, but the foreign ones are not displayed I stumbled into // TODO: Unicode and Hex not yet supported on PdfFontType1.cpp, void PdfFontType1::AddUsedSubsettingGlyphs( const PdfString & sText, long lStringLen ) Is there any plans on doing this in the near future? Is there a workaround to be able to draw these glyphs? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Podofo-users mailing list Podofo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/podofo-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Podofo-users mailing list Podofo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/podofo-users
