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mileszs / wicked_pdf

PDF generator (from HTML) plugin for Ruby on Rails
http://www.mileszs.com/wicked-pdf-plugin
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Wickedpdf Encoding #456

Open kovloq opened 8 years ago

kovloq commented 8 years ago

Hi,

I am having the problem of displaying Japanese characters in my pdf. It displays very well in the view files. I am using pdf_from_string command from wicked pdf. I've tried adding <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> in my view files but still doesn't work

Moreover, I also added
:encoding => 'UTF-8' In the options

Here is the code Controller

html = render_to_string(:action => :print,:layout => false, encoding: "ISO-8859-15")
pdf = WickedPdf.new.pdf_from_string(html,:encoding => 'UTF-8',:page_size => 'A4',:footer => { :right => '[date] [time] - page [page] of [topage]', :font_size => '6' })
send_data(pdf,
  :filename    => "print.pdf",
  :encoding => "utf8",
  :disposition => 'attachment')

View

<html>
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  </head>
  <body>
    <!-- Japanese chars here --> 
   </body>
</html>
unixmonkey commented 8 years ago

Can you include some of the Japanese characters so I could try and reproduce this?

My first thought is maybe the system you are generating the files on may not have Japanese fonts installed.

kovloq commented 8 years ago

It's Japanese Yen symbol ¥. I was trying to make a sales report in my e-commerce website. Thank you for your advise. I will try to find it out using your suggestion.

khanhpham1990 commented 8 years ago

I had a same your problem and i took a lot of times to find it, but i solved it successfully. Your problem is missing Japanese fonts. And i think you should do as follow:

Step1: wget http://dl.ipafont.ipa.go.jp/IPAexfont/IPAexfont00301.zip Step2: unzip IPAexfont00301.zip Step3: ls -l IPAexfont00301/*ttf

Step4: mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/japanese/TrueType Step5: mv -i IPAexfont00301/*ttf /usr/share/fonts/japanese/TrueType/ Step6: ls -l /usr/share/fonts/japanese/TrueType/

Step7: fc-cache -fv Step8: fc-list | grep IPA

Step9: Restart rails server and see the result

Here is document: http://qiita.com/metheglin/items/bb88aa25eae250bfa2a2#3-1

And link to download Japanese fonts: http://ipafont.ipa.go.jp/node26#jp

vishaltps commented 5 years ago

@khanhpham1990 This URL http://dl.ipafont.ipa.go.jp/IPAexfont/IPAexfont00301.zip is not working anymore. Therefore, we need to use this one wget https://oscdl.ipa.go.jp/IPAexfont/IPAexfont00301.zip.