Hebrew in PDF::Writer

alexey

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Dec 2, 2009, 7:40:30 AM12/2/09

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I am getting trouble generate hebrew characters with gem of pdf-writer
(1.1.8)

Data is coming as UTF-8 (from database), but pdf-writer is seems not
working with utf..

i tried Iconv to convert to ISO-8859-8 <> UTF8 encoding (witch is
hebrew) but it does not help,

c = Iconv.new ...
( tried also few other methods)

Any ideas ?

Dov Murik

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Dec 2, 2009, 7:50:22 AM12/2/09

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Hi,

2009/12/2 alexey <alex.cr...@gmail.com>:

> I am getting trouble generate hebrew characters with gem of pdf-writer
> (1.1.8)
>

Maybe Prawn can help:
http://prawn.majesticseacreature.com/

best,
dubek

ulewin

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Dec 2, 2009, 2:57:37 PM12/2/09

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You can go with Prince XML - http://www.princexml.com

(there is a past discussion in this group about this topic)

Uri

alexey

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Dec 22, 2009, 5:20:44 PM12/22/09

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Yes prawn is definitely good, but its capabilities are not enough for
us. (since its early alpha version).

After some research i decided to use prince xml libraries (dont need
to learn extra "pdf" language, just using html+css)..
Price for license are really worth that.

On Dec 2, 9:57 pm, ulewin <ule...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can go with Prince XML -http://www.princexml.com

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