Hello guys, I am trying to open pdf and write something to it and save new pdf. There is a problem when i am writing text to the pdf encoded in utf8. The text doesn't look as it should. 
my $utftext=qq(SOme UTF text);
#$utftext=encode("utf8", decode("cp1251", $utftext) ) ;
#$utftext=encode("utf8", $utftext ) ;

my $pdf;
$pdf = PDF::API2->open('first.pdf');

my $page_number = 1;
my $page = $pdf->openpage($page_number);

my $font = $pdf->corefont('Verdana');# ,-encoding => 'utf8'

my $text = $page->text(); 
$text->font($font, 30);
$text->translate(359, 713);
$text->text("$utftext");

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

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In reply to Re: PDF::API2 Questions by Anonymous Monk
in thread PDF::API2 Questions by akwe-xavante

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