im running out of ideas here, you mentioned that it was a font problem a couple weeks ago, should i stick to that and try to make it work or is there anything else i could try?
On 08/10/2012, at 15:55, Leonard Rosenthol <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't have to an answer to why FT_New_Face is failing, but since FreeType > is also open source, you can trace into it. > > However, I will point out that you won't legally be able to bundle that font > as part of your project/application. > > Leonard > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ismael Schellemberg [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 1:38 PM > To: Leonard Rosenthol > Cc: Dominik Seichter; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Podofo-users] unicode text > > I was just struggling with this one, I downloaded Arial Unicode MS font .ttf > and add it to the project resources, and i'm creating the PdfFont like this: > > NSString *fontPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"Arial Unicode > MS" ofType:@"ttf"]; PdfFontCache::EFontCreationFlags flags = > PdfFontCache::eFontCreationFlags_AutoSelectBase14; > > PdfFont *fileFont2 = document->CreateFont( "Arial Unicode MS", false, false, > > new PdfIdentityEncoding(0, > 0xffff, true), > flags, > true, localPath.UTF8String); > > however it throws an exception in PdfFontMetricsFreetype.cpp when trying to > create the font face: > > CRITICAL: FreeType returned the error 6 when calling FT_New_Face for font > /var/mobile/Applications/DC615388-057F-4ED3-8A1A-E99BEF5137F3/Documents/Arial > Unicode MS.ttf > > looking up i found error 6 is invalid glyph index, but i've no idea what this > means > > > On 08/10/2012, at 15:31, Leonard Rosenthol > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > > Unless it was rewritten for Cocoa, I think you need to pass in a full > pathname to the font file since the Mac code doesn't know how to do lookups > in the OS. > > Leonard > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ismael Schellemberg > [mailto:[email protected]<http://infragistics.com>] > Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 8:39 AM > To: Dominik Seichter > Cc: Leonard Rosenthol; > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Podofo-users] unicode text > > Im able to create a font named ArialUnicodeMS or Arial Unicode MS normally > using obj-c (UIFont) so the font does exist in the system > > UIFont *arialUnicodeFont = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Arial Unicode MS" > size:8]; > > Maybe there's something I need to do to be able to create one in PoDoFo? > > Is there a way to create one "manually"? How should I approach this? > > > On 07/10/2012, at 16:44, Dominik Seichter > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > > PoDoFo should do the conversion from UTF8 to Identity-H encoding here > automatically. Problem seems to be that the fond Arial Unicode MS cannot be > found on your system. Did you check this? > > Regards, > Dom > > On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Leonard Rosenthol > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > You can't put UTF-8 into the content stream of a PDF - it's not supported. > > Leonard > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ismael Schellemberg > [mailto:[email protected]<http://infragistics.com><http://infragistics.com>] > Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 2:42 PM > To: > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: [Podofo-users] unicode text > > Greetings, i'm having some problems trying to use unicode characters … > > In CreationTest.cpp there is this code: > > void CreateUnicodeAnnotationFreeText( PdfPage* pPage, PdfDocument* pDocument > ) { > PdfString sJap(reinterpret_cast<const pdf_utf8*>("「PoDoFo」は今から日本語も話せます。")); > PdfFont* pFont = pDocument->CreateFont( "Arial Unicode MS", new > PdfIdentityEncoding( 0, 0xffff, true ) ); > > PdfRect rect( 200.0, 200.0, 200.0, 200.0 ); > > std::ostringstream oss; > oss << "BT" << std::endl << "/" << pFont->GetIdentifier().GetName() > << " " << pFont->GetFontSize() > << " Tf " << std::endl; > > WriteStringToStream( sJap, oss, pFont ); > oss << "Tj ET" << std::endl; > > PdfDictionary fonts; > fonts.AddKey(pFont->GetIdentifier().GetName(), > pFont->GetObject()->Reference()); > PdfDictionary resources; > resources.AddKey( PdfName("Fonts"), fonts ); > > PdfAnnotation* pAnnotation = > pPage->CreateAnnotation( ePdfAnnotation_FreeText, rect ); > > PdfString sGerman(reinterpret_cast<const pdf_utf8*>("Unicode Umlauts: > ÄÖÜß")); > pAnnotation->SetTitle( sGerman ); > pAnnotation->SetContents( sJap ); > //pAnnotation->SetAppearanceStream( &xObj ); > pAnnotation->GetObject()->GetDictionary().AddKey( PdfName("DA"), > PdfString(oss.str()) ); > pAnnotation->GetObject()->GetDictionary().AddKey( PdfName("DR"), resources ); > > > } > > > But when i try to create the font, pFont returns NULL Any idea why this is > happening? > > if not, how can i write unicode characters into a PdfStream when creating a > FreeText annotation? > > The problem is that adobe viewers (among others) don't display the annotation > properly because the stream isn't properly drawn It is invisible until > selected, and then it becomes visible (searching through the pdf structure, i > found that the Tj command in the annotations content stream has no value) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. 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