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  • Registered: 08/29/2013
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Topic: Print Traditional Chinese

Hi, I am new to FA accounting.  Just finished installing and trying various of things.  I got the input of Chinese working already but I am not able to print it correctly (still comes up with scrambled code).  I had already download the chinese_traditional_cid.zip files and placed them in \reporting\font\ already and also check the class.pdf.inc to make sure the font name is chinese_traditional_cid.

  • joe
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Re: Print Traditional Chinese

This is strange. I haven't tried it myself. Maybe there are other using the traditional chinese that can help us here.

/Joe

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Re: Print Traditional Chinese

The problem is solved.  It is because I personally like to use the English interface.  When I tested out some customer names, I have to use Chinese.  Since FA reporting language matches with the preference language, it goes to default font name - dejavu instead of chinese_traditional_cid so the scrambled characters come up as result.   I have a suggestion for users who like to use English interface but need to print Chinese, you can set the default font name to chinese_traditional_cid because I tested it out and it pretty much covers all the characters of simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese and English.

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Re: Print Traditional Chinese

Thanks for this advice.

Joe

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Re: Print Traditional Chinese

To clarify for end users, the change has to be made in reporting/includes/class.pdf.inc by replacing lines 156-162:

                switch ($this->l['a_meta_language'])
                {
                    case "ar_EG" :     $fontname = "ae_tholoth";     break;
                    case "zh_CN" :     $fontname = "gbsn00lp";     break;
                    case "zh_TW" :     $fontname = "chinese_traditional_cid0";     break;
                    default :          $fontname = "dejavu";         break;
                }

to

                switch ($this->l['a_meta_language'])
                {
                    case "ar_EG" :     $fontname = "ae_tholoth";     break;
                    case "zh_CN" :     $fontname = "gbsn00lp";     break;
                    case "zh_TW" :     $fontname = "chinese_traditional_cid0";     break;
                    default :          $fontname = "chinese_traditional_cid0";         break;
                }

Is this what you did?

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  • From: Hong Kong
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Re: Print Traditional Chinese

Yes, you are correct.

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Re: Print Traditional Chinese

Provided backlink to this post in the Wiki.

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  • Registered: 08/02/2018
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Re: Print Traditional Chinese

Thank you for the suggested solution.  I just faced the same issue, using English for interface but had to use traditional/simplified Chinese.  Now the pdf printing works.