amici-infotech/craft-super-pdf

Special characters are being replaced in PDF

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MetaDevelopment commented

Thanks for the plugin, very useful!

I don't know how I can fix the following though: any special/accented character, like é and ë, is being replaced by the 'standard' character with a question mark in the pdf-file, so e? in both mentioned cases.

Any idea how I can resolve this?

amici-infotech commented

hey @MetaDevelopment pretty sure thats not happen inside plugin. Can you test just a blank page with this code? attaching how it looks in my end. (my wild guess is, fonts you are using are not allowing you to write such characters)

{% set html %}
<!doctype html>
<html>
    <head>
        <meta charset="UTF-8">
    </head>
<body>
    <div>
        <p>
            test é and ë
            Ä,Ö,Ü,ß
        </p>
    </div>
</body>
</html>
{% endset %}
{% set settings = {
    filename: "My_PDF",
    type: 'object'
} %}
{% set object = craft.superpdf.html(html, settings) %}

<iframe src="{{ object.getUrl() }}" frameborder="0" width="1000" height="600"></iframe>

Screenshot at May 29 13-21-02

MetaDevelopment commented

Hi @amici-infotech ,

Thanks for the super quick feedback!

I've added that page and the result looks the same as in your example: the characters show as expected. It's the same font though as in my template (no custom font, since I didn't get that to work in the PDF).

amici-infotech commented

Strange. Can you remove most part from your pdf template and add them one by to find out where its breaking it? Start from removing any tags.

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MetaDevelopment commented

OK, found it.

  • started stripping down the template until only one rich text field tag remained: the issue persisted
  • since the template is now exactly the same as your example, which does work, the problem should be in the rich text field
  • added your paragraph to the rich text and there those characters do show correctly, but the ones in the original text still do not
  • after removing the characters from within the original text and adding them again by typing them, they do show correctly

So it was not a plugin issue, nor a server settings issue, but rather an issue with the text. I guess that was pasted from somewhere and the characters didn't come over properly.

Anyway, thank you very much for the quick and to the point support!

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