Greek characters support

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   Good day,
I am using your QuickPDF dll in MFC/C++

I am able to open/save PDF's with greek names by passing the strings encoded with utf-8 as pointed out in the documentation. Everything works fine here!

When i try to draw text though, the text appears as "?????" or other random characters.
From what i found in the documentation and here in the forums the code below should work.

std::string title("ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ");//The Greek alphabet
int GreekFont = pdf_dll->AddSubsettedFont("Arial",12,title);
pdf_dll->DrawText(100 ,500 ,pdf_dll->GetSubsetString(title));
//Save the pdf and exit...

Please point me out what i am doing wrong.

Thanx in advance,
Stakon.

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stakon Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 09 Oct 09 Status: Offline Points: 22	Post Options Post Reply Quote stakon Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Greek characters support Posted: 16 Oct 09 at 11:57AM
	Good day, I am using your QuickPDF dll in MFC/C++ I am able to open/save PDF's with greek names by passing the strings encoded with utf-8 as pointed out in the documentation. Everything works fine here! When i try to draw text though, the text appears as "?????" or other random characters. From what i found in the documentation and here in the forums the code below should work. std::string title("ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ");//The Greek alphabet int GreekFont = pdf_dll->AddSubsettedFont("Arial",12,title); pdf_dll->DrawText(100 ,500 ,pdf_dll->GetSubsetString(title)); //Save the pdf and exit... Please point me out what i am doing wrong. Thanx in advance, Stakon.

stakon Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 09 Oct 09 Status: Offline Points: 22	Post Options Post Reply Quote stakon Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 29 Oct 09 at 7:38AM
	Hi, I noticed that noone has any comment on this topic. Is it possible that greek characters are unsupported?

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3530	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 29 Oct 09 at 9:25AM
	Hi! It's not a problem with greek characters but with unicode. This is the biggest thing the guys at Debenu are working on and unicode touches nearly every module, every function, ... so it still will last ... but i think it will be better with the next releases. Sure ;-) Cheers, Ingo

Wheeley Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 30 Oct 05 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 146	Post Options Post Reply Quote Wheeley Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 29 Oct 09 at 9:56PM
	You should try version 7.17 which was just released today.They made vast improvements for unicode code support. Your problem might be fixed in the latest version. If not contact support directly. Remember this is a user to user support forum and it might take a while for someone with the answer to reply. Wheeley