[cl-pdf-devel] Re: [cl-typesetting-devel] Unicode?

[Marc Battyani]

Peter Seibel wrote:

> > Yes, as far as I can tell some moderately significant surgery needs to
> > be done to really support arbitrary Unicode characters. For another
> > test case, you can use:
> >
> >   (pdf:draw-text (format nil "~c~c" (code-char #x6e05) (code-char
> > #x6167)))
> >
> > Which are the two Chinese characters you can see on this web page:
> >
> >   <http://www.gigamonkeys.com/amelia/>
>   

I just tried the unicode-hello in test.lisp and it seems to work well on
LWW5.02:


> > (pdf:load-ttu-font #P"d:/tmp/times.ufm" #P"C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/times.ttf")
>   
#<pdf::ttu-font-metrics Times New Roman 200A07E7>

> >(defparameter *unicode-test-string* (map unicode-string-type 'code-char
>   
    '(8252 8319 8359 8592 8593 8594 8595 8596 8597 8616 915 920 934 945
948 949 963 964 966 32
      9554 9555 9556 9557 9558 9559 9560 9561 9562 9563 9564 9565 9566
9567 32 65
      9568 9650 9658 9660 9668 9675 9688 9689 8364 1027 8218 402 8222
8230 8224 8225 32 66
      372 373 374 375 383 506 507 508 509 510 511 903 913 914 916 917
918 919 921 922 923 32
      946 947 950 951 952 953 954 955 956 957 958 1101 1102 1103 1105
1106 1107 1108 32
      1475 1488 1489 1490 1491 1492 1493 64304 64305 64306 64307 64308
64309 32
      7911 7912 7913 7914 7915 7916 7917 7918 1179 1180 1181 1186 1187
1198 1199 1200 32 #x6e05 #x6167)))
*unicode-test-string*

> > (defun unicode-hello (&optional (file #P"/tmp/hello-u.pdf"))
>   
  (pdf:with-document ()
    (pdf:with-page ()
      (pdf:with-outline-level ("Unicode Example"
(pdf:register-page-reference))
    (pdf:set-line-width 0.1)
    (let ((content
           (compile-text ()
                 (vspace 100)
         (paragraph (:h-align :center :font "Helvetica-Bold" :font-size
50 :color '(0.0 0 0.8))
                "cl-typesetting" :eol
                (vspace 2)
                (hrule :dy 1)
                (with-style (:font "Times-Italic" :font-size 26)
                  "The cool Common Lisp typesetting system")
                (vspace 50)
                (with-style (:font "TimesNewRomanPSMT" :font-size 36)
                  (put-string *unicode-test-string*))))))
      (draw-block content 20 800 545 700))))
    (pdf:write-document file)))
unicode-hello


> > (unicode-hello)
>   
nil

The generated pdf looks ok for me in acrobat. I can send it to you if you want. (too big for the list, it just bounced)

Have you tried this example?

Marc