[reportlab-users] how to use rml2pdf generate chinese pdf document

li xian leeshasr at gmail.com
Sun Dec 4 19:09:52 EST 2005


thank you !



2005/12/5, Andy Robinson <andy at reportlab.com>:
>
> li xian wrote:
> > thanks all!
> > I am a new reportlab user
> > .
> > I want to use rml2pdf generate chinese simplfiy font pdf document.
>
> Are you talking about the open source 'Tiny RML2PDF'?  This is made by
> someone else and I cannot provide any support for it; I would be very
> surprised if the author has done the needed work.
>
> If you use Python code and the ReportLab library directly, then
> you can look at the script tests
>    test_multibyte_chs.py
>    test_multibyte_cht.py
> to see how to generate text in Simplified and Traditional Chinese.
> But these use the Acrobat Reader language packs; they don't give you
> a big choice of fonts.   You should be able to use multibyte TrueType
> fonts according to our manual, but I guess there will be a
> performance issue.
>
> We will hopefully be doing quite a lot of work in Jan-Mar 2006 on Asian
> language support and Unicode - we have some possible projects which
> require this coming up.  So please let us know if you find any problems
> or have any suggestions on Chinese support.
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
> Andy Robinson
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