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Multilangual PDF Creation(in all indian languages)
Java
Satish Kumar Kara
Mobile
Greenhorn
We have a module to generate PDF documents, which has to be processed by another module for some security features. Currently we are using iText API to create PDF documents in case of English. But we have to implement i18n in our application ( for all Indian languages). So we need to generate the PDF document in other Indian languages like Hindi, Guajarati, Kannada etc. Following are some criteria to be considered.
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Certification
posted 8 years ago
Databases
1. The document may have more than one language texts with English texts. 2. The document may contain all the numeric of all languages and special characters. 3. We are storing data in database as UNICODE(UTF-8) and using the JDBC API to retrieve.
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Kindly suggest us some solution with iText API. Let us know if some other PDF API is supporting all Indian languages.
Books
Ulf Dittmer
Engineering
Rancher
iText and PDFs can handle Unicode. As long as the machine on which the document is viewed has fonts available that cover all characters (like Microsoft Arial Unicode), there should not be any problems. If no such font is available, you can use iText to embed the font in the document. Note that such fonts are big (MS Arial Unicode is about 20 MB in size, IIRC), and that not all font licenses permit distribution of the font.
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Micro Controllers
posted 8 years ago
76 OS
This may help: http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts.html
Languages
Campbell Ritchie
posted 8 years ago
Sheriff
Paradigms
Not a "beginning" question. Moving thread.
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IDEs
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Satish Kumar Kara Greenhorn
Frameworks
posted 8 years ago
In the Machine on which the document is viewed has fonts which supports the particular language and
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Application Servers
We are embedding the font which supports Hindi (Indian language) in the document using iText as
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Note : The text (hindi) is stored in oracle DB in UTF-8 encoding. We are able retrieve the same in the browser but not in pdf generated using iText. When the iText is embedding, it is getting changed.
It looks like, basically, it gets it right, except for the first characters being swapped. That might be the Hindi equivalent of using ligatures vs. not using ligatures. A possible workaround is mentioned here.
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I see that you also asked this elsewhere, and even got a reply; next time you do that, BeForthrightWhenCrossPostingToOtherSites.
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posted 3 years ago
Since this thread is a few years old, I just wanted to see if anyone has additional information on how to solve the problem. I know there is no official itext solution, but wondering if anyone has come up with a workaround that's effective. Thanks!
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