From: "Simon Kröger" <SimonKroeger@...>
Date: 2007-02-17T03:00:05+09:00
Subject: Re: PDF::Writer and Unicode

Vincent Fourmond wrote:

>   Welcome to the nightmare world of fonts and encodings...

... and PDF generation in Ruby.

If this helps, you can see myself struggle with the same
problem here:

http://groups.google.de/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/54336c6a932903fe/f0bb48520dac2ba5

I ended up using libharu (http://libharu.sourceforge.net/)

It is cross platform, FAST and has ruby bindings (it is a little bit
clumsy to use and the ruby bindings are missing some functions but
it is the best i could find)

example:
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require "hpdf"

pdf = HPDFDoc.new
font = pdf.get_font("Helvetica", "CP1254")

page = pdf.add_page

page.set_size(HPDFDoc::HPDF_PAGE_SIZE_A4, HPDFDoc::HPDF_PAGE_PORTRAIT)
page.set_font_and_size(font, 96)

page.begin_text

page.move_text_pos(100, 700)
page.show_text("\x80")

page.end_text

pdf.save_to_file "c:/temp/test.pdf"
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

With a little love to the wrapper this could be really good...

cheers

Simon