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Problem converting to Tamil in PDF
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 5:29 am
by riyariya
Dear All,
Iam using Tamil language in my articles. When i try to export it into pdf i get unreadable charaters.I have created the files required for pdf translation and placed them into the language/pdf_fonts folder.
Below are the files,
arialunicode-ms.php
arialunicode-ms.rar
arialunicode-ms.ctg.rar
Iam using Arialunicode-MS font. I have changed the font name in default language file as,
<pdfFontName>arialunicode-ms</pdfFontName>
I badly need help. Joomla Experts pls save me.
Re: Problem converting to Tamil in PDF
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 7:47 am
by infograf768
These suffixes are not correct and anyway, using Arial would make your pdf enormous in size.
I suggest you rather use Freeserif for Tamil.
freeserif.ctg.z
freeserif.php
freeserif.z
Freeserif is available here:
http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/pdffonts15/frs/
Re: Problem converting to Tamil in PDF
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:07 am
by riyariya
Hi infograf768,
Thanks for your reply.
Sorry for typing the file extensions wrongly. Iam using .z type files only.
I have tried the following fonts freeserif, freesans and latha (downloaded and created the files by my own).
But it now shows the tamil content with some letters misplaced. I dont know where iam stuck up.
Any idea?
Re: Problem converting to Tamil in PDF
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:40 am
by infograf768
If Freeserif (the ones available in our repository) don't work for you, not much I can do. Sorry.
Re: Problem converting to Tamil in PDF
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 10:45 am
by riyariya
Thanks for your quick reply.
Is it enough to copy paste the unzipped files into the languages/pdf_fonts folder or it should also be copied to libraries/tcpdf/fonts folder..
In language/en-GB/en-GB.xml file I have changed,
<pdfFontName>freesans</pdfFontName>
I copied the files into both mentioned above and getting blank screen in pdf.
Re: Problem converting to Tamil in PDF
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 2:08 pm
by infograf768
It is in your tamil language pack xml that you have to put
<pdfFontName>freeserif</pdfFontName> if not present
http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/jtrans ... ge_id=3455
the 3 files have to be put into the language/pdf_fonts/ next to Freesans