Hello community.

First I must say I like codeigniter very muchos.

I’m trying to create pdf documents from html, and I found this article very interesting. My problem is that I need to create utf-8 pdf files.

At dompdf homepage I found this: Unicode support when using PDFLib, courtesy Jeremy Buchman (licensed version only—PDFLib Lite will NOT work)

I’m using commercial pdflib version with licence number inserted into config file.
I don’t know what I’m doing wrong but I just can’t make it works with utf-8.

I used instructions to create amf files from ttf and script worked fine but effective only in copying files, it didn’t convert anything.

Anyone have some atf file supporting utf, please if you could send it to my mail for testing purposes. Final application will run on linux but I must be sure utf works fine with dompdf.

Anyone succeed in that at windows?

I had some trouble with this with Bamboo.  Essentially, I needed to make sure there was an explicit meta tag stating that the content in my view (the one I was using for domPDF as utf-8.

It works perfectly fine than? With that commercial licence?

See, I would really get my PDFs containing Æ, Ø and Å to work, without words collapsing into each other.. even if I have to pay for it..

Are you saving them into a database first tobben?  I could be that your database is changing the charset.  Try just straight html first.

Alright, I’ll try with no db, even though Im pretty sure it’s all UTF-8.

Some visual “candy” on the problem:

http://home.online.no/~janerboe/collapse.gif

It does not work for me. I’m getting ???? for čćđž in html.
Document encoding is utf-8 too just like html encoding.

Using meta:
<meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=utf-8” />

Could you post the minimal view required to recreate this?  I’d be happy to test on my setup.

It works! But now I have the same problem with letters collapsing into each other.

I deinstalled all extensions on server and downloaded new from PDFlib homepage and now everything works great!

Did anyone succeed in creating symbols inside pdf with dompdf without utf-8 support?
€ does not works for me.

Good news on the DomPDF/UTF-8 issue:

http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=4754104

Great!! I can’t wait to try it!

Have you tried TCPDF? It support utf8, some html, it’s based on fpdf, though. Looks like it’s regularly updated and has a bunch of nice examples with header/footer, html, js+forms. etc.

TCPDF
TCPDF Examples

Yes, but it does not support html as good as DOMPDF does. It’s to slow and only in theory it has HTML support.
DOMPDF really uses DOM and works fast and well.

I tried them all -UFPDF, FPDF, TCPDF, CPDF, PDFlib.. they all works somehow, but in action they make more problems then solutions.

Well, if you are in hurry, you could use it as a workaround while waiting for next dompdf version. It looks like the author’s been working on utf support since 2006:

http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=3810495

I know about PDFLib but in hosted version it cost USD 1.000 and I can’t install it on hosted server.

This fix above for DOMPDF is just embeded TCPDF, so it realy sucks. Thanks for help.

I’ll just have to accept the fact that there is no way to create large pdf documents with php.

I need really fast app that can create pdf files on the fly, large documents with 1-50 pages.
I think I will look for some Java apps and connect it with php.