PDF generated not showing japanese characters correctly

[ezakimak]

Hi, can anybody tell me where to start looking to try to solve this issue.
In PDF document generated for invoices and the like, all kanji characters are displayed as "???" , but in the BO and FO forms pages they are shown correctly

thanks for any help

[rocky]

See my post here.

[ezakimak]

thanks for the reply, but I think I will need an utf-8 enconding but there is not utf-8 in the map encoding list.
i'll keep searching

[virtulian]

have you found any solution for this error?

[virtulian]

kindly can any body tell me about this how I can show Japanese character in pdf I tried all ways

Regards

[tuk66]

have you found any solution for this error?

The M4 PDF Extensions module displays Japanese characters in PDF correctly (and Chinese, Korean and characters from rest of the world too).

[SerjLeon]

SOLUTION FOUND (v.1.5.3)

 

It works if you have the localization pack. (can be downloaded any time through BO)

So in the case of Japanese, I did next:

 

/classes/pdf/PDFGenerator.php line35 const DEFAULT_FONT = 'helvetica';

replace 'helvetica' with 'cid0jp'

 

DONE. Your invoices now show Japanese properly.

[moraira]

Great solution, running ok in prestashop 1.6.1

 

change in /classes/pdf/PDFGenerator.php

class PDFGeneratorCore extends TCPDF
{
   const DEFAULT_FONT = 'helvetica';

	public $header;
	public $footer;
	public $content;
...

for

class PDFGeneratorCore extends TCPDF
{
   const DEFAULT_FONT = 'cid0jp';

	public $header;
	public $footer;
	public $content;
...

Edited September 1, 2015 by moraira (see edit history)