Converting PDF with chinese fonts

[Fred Dixon]

Hi everyone,

Has anyone already tried adding more Chinese fonts to a BigBlueButton server to assist pdf2swf in rendering documents with Chinese fonts.

   https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/issues/3176

Regards,.. Fred

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[fish slippery]

The best free Chinese font is Google's DroidSansfallback, you can install it by "sudo apt-get install fonts-droid". 

If it cannot work, you may copy Microsoft's Chinese fonts into Ubuntu /usr/share/fonts/chinesefonts, and execute sudo fc-cache -f -v The most frequently used Chinese font is SimSun.ttf & SimHei.ttf & msyh.ttf.

BTW: I joined this group just for answering your question :-)
在 2016年6月14日星期二 UTC+8下午11:55:37，Fred Dixon写道：

[Fred Dixon]

Hi,

Thanks for the response -- I tried these fonts on a test server

> you can install it by "sudo apt-get install fonts-droid". 

Hmmm ... tried that but still got the missing characters.  Unfortunately, copying the Microsoft Chinese font is not an option as it would require a separate license.  We are looking for a solution based on open source fonts.

Regards,.. Fred

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[David Feng]

I think it probably because of the file were not encoded in pdf2swf way. I copied the file content and save it to another pdf file with Mac OS Pages, it works. I have droid font installed.

[Fanfree Fan]

chinese fonts doc to PDF , execute the following command

$ sudo apt-get install libreoffice-l10n-zh-cn 

$sudo apt-get install libreoffice-help-zh-cn

$ sudo mkfontscale
$ sudo mkfontdir

$ sudo bbb-conf —clean or sudo /etc/init.d/bbb-office restart

在 2016年6月14日星期二 UTC+8下午11:55:37，Fred Dixon写道：

Hi everyone,

[Fred Dixon]

Hi Fanfree,

Thanks for the feedback.  I just tried your steps on an installation of BigBlueButton 1.1-beta server but the document doesn't convert.  Doing a google for

  pdf2swf chinese

showed this link

  http://nongnu.13855.n7.nabble.com/pdf2swf-Error-with-traditional-Chinese-td121594.html

which showed promise.  If anyone is familiar with using Chinese fonts, we'd be interested if you could get a sample PDF document, such as

  http://speed.cis.nctu.edu.tw/~ydlin/miscpub/wlan_ap.pdf

to convert with pdf2swf.

Regards,.. Fred

  

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[bendark]

hi fred


i opened this file wlan_ap.pdf in pdf viewer than printed to pdf file
i loaded the last file (printed) to bbb1.1beta server , and voilà no font (chinese) problem, conversion went well
you can try the uploded file


best regards

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[Fred Dixon]

Hi,

Thanks for testing -- we see that as well.  Normally, a PDF has the fonts embedded, and when you open the file in Acrobat Reader, for example, on Windows or Mac OS X and print to PDF, the resulting PDF has embedded the fonts.

It appears the original PDF file does not have the fonts embedded and the reader must reference the system fonts.  

We are still hoping others who are familiar with configuring a Ubuntu server to use Chinese fonts -- or more specifically configuring the server so pdf2swf can find the Chinese fonts -- so the original document displays properly in the BigBlueButton client.

Regards,... Fred

 

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