[reportlab-users] Wrong characters displayed with AcrobatReader

[François Wautier]

Hi,

I looked at your file. With KPDF it looked fine, but with Acrobat it looked 
even worse than you had described: a few random charaters was all I saw. 

I also generate Thai/Japanese charaters in documents using Reportlab. It works 
quite nicely and I have no problem with acrobat.

I use the free Cyberbit font.  What font do you use? 

Cheers,
	François





On Monday 07 April 2008 23:17:49 Paolo G. Cantore wrote:

> Dear all,  (2nd attempt: this time with pdf included)

>

> I want to use Reportlab for generating PDF documents with TrueType fonts

> including thai, chinese, japanese and korean characters / graphs.

>

> My tests look very promising as I am able to generate PDFs which are

> displayed and printed correctly with xpdf or evince (standard viewer for

> Gnome). But to my absolute surprise the same PDFs are not displayed

> correctly with AcrobatReader. There must be an astonishing algorithm

> implemented in AcrobatReader which converts in a random manner one

> character into another in the whole document.

>

> Please try to open the attached PDF with AdobeReader and you'll see what

> I mean. In the PDF all "c" characters are converted to "Y" characters

> (Certificate ==> CertifiYate). In other cases I had "a" converted to

> "7". When you open the PDF with xpdf or other viewers all is okay.

>

> The font used is Norasi (UTF-8 unicode) but the same applies to Cyberbit.

>

> Is this a known behaviour of AcrobatReader?

> Am I doing something wrong?

> Do you have any suggestions or work around how to avoid this displaying

> problem?

>

> Thank you!