Re^2: PDF::API2 / unicode characters leads me to believe that the PDF core fonts are not Unicode-compatible. I take it you are using those?

Having taken a closer look at PDF::Report, I'm left with the impression that there's no real way to get it to use external fonts. You could shell out to PDF::API2 (which it wraps) using ->getPDFAPI2Object() and then call ->ttfont() on that, but there's no way in PDF::Report to apply the resulting font object to your text, so you'd have to keep using ->getPDFAPI2Object() -- to add text, then to add pages, and so on, and in the end it'd be easier to just use PDF::API2 directly.

Here's some skeleton code that Works For Me: 

#!usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use utf8;

use PDF::API2;

my $pdf = PDF::API2->new();
my $page = $pdf->page();
my $font = $pdf->ttfont('./DejaVuSans.ttf');
my $text = $page->text();

$text->font($font, 20);
$text->translate(100, 700);
$text->text('...');

$pdf->saveas('test.pdf');

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(Unicode string stripped out due to the Monastery not being willing to handle it.)

In reply to Re: Ho to produce Unicode text with PDF::Report? by AppleFritter
in thread Ho to produce Unicode text with PDF::Report? by flamey

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