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Topic: DrawHTMLText (8.11) special characters?

Posted By: infrax
Subject: DrawHTMLText (8.11) special characters?
Date Posted: 14 Sep 11 at 7:43AM

With 7.x version I used this code to print html code:

q.SetHTMLNormalFont("Default", q.AddTrueTypeFont("Arial {1250}", 0));

q.SetHTMLBoldFont("Default", q.AddTrueTypeFont("Arial [Bold] {1250}", 0));

q.SetHTMLItalicFont("Default", q.AddTrueTypeFont("Arial [Italic] {1250}", 0));

q.SetHTMLBoldItalicFont("Default", q.AddTrueTypeFont("Arial [BoldItalic] {1250}", 0));

q.DrawHTMLText(left, top, right, text);

And it was working OK, all eastern europe characters were shown. Now with 8.11 version eastern europe characters are not printed OK.

In this forum I noticed that there is a bug in DrawHTMLTextBox function. Is this a bug also here, or should I use different code to do this?

Thanks

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Posted By: infrax
Date Posted: 26 Sep 11 at 9:37AM

Anyone?

Posted By: Lord Jim
Date Posted: 26 Sep 11 at 1:40PM

You might want to try the 8.12 beta that was released last week. DrawHTMLTextBox does still have some issues, but they did fix a few things.

Posted By: AndrewC
Date Posted: 26 Sep 11 at 2:11PM

What characters in particular are you having problems with ?

I tried German which did not work with 1250 but did work as expected with 1252.

Is 1250 the correct code page ? It might be worth trying 1252.

The 8.11 version is now fully Unicode so you need to pass in the Unicode version of the characters you want to draw.

You can also try AddTrueTypeSubsettedFont() which will work better in QPL 8.11. I will review with the QPL team. Now that QPL is Unicode the {xxxx} system would work differently from QPL 7.xx as you have found.

Andrew.

Posted By: infrax
Date Posted: 28 Sep 11 at 1:47PM

1250 is the correct code page -> east europe.

I tried 8.12 version -> no luck.

Played with AddTrueTypeSubsettedFont() -> no luck.

Tried other code pages -> no luck.

I also tried German characters -> they show OK (with 1252).

Can you try it with Slovenian ones? -> ššš ččč žžž

I'm using C#. As I undestand all strings in C# are unicode so that shouldn't be a problem. Or not?

Thanks

Posted By: AndrewC
Date Posted: 28 Sep 11 at 3:25PM

I have confirmed there is a problem when using Slovenian text with the DrawHTML text function. The 1252 Code page is very similar to the Unicode character mappings which is why German and Norwegian ws wroking well for me.

DrawText is working perfectly well so we should be able to get it working for the 8.12 release.

Posted By: infrax
Date Posted: 29 Sep 11 at 6:06AM

Ok. Thanks