Re: Symbols in text...

Hi,

I had some luck using UTF-8 encodings. If you are running Perl 5.8+ and have PDF::API2 release 0.40_+ you can use it by:

$trademark = "\x{2122}";
$registered_trademark = "\x{ae}";
$copyright = "\x{a9}";
$bullet = "\x{2022}";

The stable version of PDF::API2 does not handle utf8 strings correctly.

On Wednesday, November 24, 2004, at 05:06  PM, Mark Fowle wrote:

> My code used zapfdingbats for special characters(in a specific report that I run), the characters you need are probably in the standard fonts, but I did not check.
> I would write out a table of the characters, if they are not there try different encodings, iso-8859-1 and what not.
> For encoding see older emails in this list, I cant find any at the moment, or hope some one else answers with a more complete example than me.
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Turner [mailto:tturner-DdRK1sPn6Jfc+919tysfdA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 4:51 PM
> To: perl-text-pdf-modules-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [perl-text-pdf-modules] Symbols in text...
>
> So you have to set the font to zapfdingbats to get that to work?
>
> I was hoping it was something I could embed in a $txt->paragraph type call but I guess not.  Looks like we'd have to leave a space in the paragraph and then somehow determine the translation location to add just that one symbol as an overlay in the right location???? 
>
> If I'm off base, please let me know.
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> From: Mark Fowle [mailto:mfowle-uVnJ9s0aRV+BUy7/sJONFg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 4:50 PM
> To: 'perl-text-pdf-modules-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [perl-text-pdf-modules] Symbols in text...
>
>
> I quite often use code such as the below (note the default font for the below in my script is zapfdingbats for the numbers in circles)
>
> this should work:
>     my %char;
>     $char{1} =  chr(172);
>     $char{2} =  chr(173);
>     $char{3} =  chr(174);
>     $char{4} =  chr(175);
>     $char{nbsp} =  chr(160);
>     $char{bullet} = chr(129);
> # noting that these are not the codes you asked about but you get the idea
>     $txt->translate($x_base,$y);
>     $txt->text("$char{1}");
>
> you might want to write a loop to print out the number and the printed character for both normal fonts and zapfdingbats or do we searches.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: turnertim [mailto:tturner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 4:25 PM
> To: perl-text-pdf-modules-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [perl-text-pdf-modules] Symbols in text...
>
>
>
>
> Is it possible to place special character symbols in text like in HTML.
>
> - trademark symbol
> - copyright symbol
> - bulleted list bullet symbols (like with <UL> and <LI> in html)
>
> If so, how.
>
> -Tim
>
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