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SVG to PDF encoding error #1239
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Greetings, This is an issue in writing PDF from SVG using Trying to render a simple SVG as PDF with non-ASCII character gives an error: This is the SVG string: <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">
<svg width="100%" height="100%"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<text x="100" y="100">
木
</text>
</svg>And this is the script: require 'victor'
require 'prawn-svg'
require 'prawn'
svgout = Victor::SVG.new
svgout.build { text "木", x: 100, y: 100 }
Prawn::Document.generate("svg.pdf") do
font "#{ENV["HOME"]}/Library/Fonts/gkai00mp.ttf"
text "山"
svg svgout.render
endThe font works properly: without Thank you. |
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Replies: 5 comments 5 replies
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Could you please share what the call to Like this, maybe: Prawn::Document.generate("svg.pdf") do
font "#{ENV["HOME"]}/Library/Fonts/gkai00mp.ttf"
text "山"
pp svg svgout.render
end |
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Thank you for the response. This is the output. |
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This doesn't look quite right. I'd expect |
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At a guess, your XML declaration in the SVG is not explicit enough - try making it set the encoding to UTF-8 and see what happens: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<svg>...</svg> |
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Thank you. I forgot to write that I tried that before and it produced the same error. I also tried adding |
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My mistake. I typed |
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After a bit of poking, I think that the problem is that you haven't declared a font in your SVG, so it's falling back to the default PDF fonts, which are Windows-1252-only. It looks like you might need to add your font separately to |
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Thank you again. Unfortunately I try setting |
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In the SVG XML you need to specify a font name in the style attribute: |
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Thank you for your suggestion. I found that either |
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Thank you for your suggestion. I found that either
style="font-family: ...or"font-family: ..."works. I used the latter because of the definition. But to work it needsfontas the name not the path andfont_familiesto be added.