PDF Converter - Chinese fonts/glyphs

[trytoplay38]

I have downloaded the trial version from plutext, I'm trying to convert a docx to PDF, but from the sample code, I can't find how do i going to convert a docx to pdf?

[jason]

The Enterprise version doesn't provide any additional capabilities regarding docx to PDF.

For PDF output, we offer 2 ways:

1. our commercial PDF Converter (a separate product), which you can get from https://converter-eval.plutext.com/

After installing, please see https://converter-eval.plutext.com/client_java.html

2. cheap n cheerful, free/open source XSL FO based conversion, which you enable by adding the docx4j-export-fo jar to your classpath: https://github.com/plutext/docx4j-export-fo

Hope this helps.

[trytoplay38]

Good day jason,

i have tried the commercial version, and i realize, after the conversion, the chinese character will be all become square. So how do i make sure the conversion will look exact the same with the docx file?

[jason]

You'll need to:

1. install it locally
2. add a font which contains the glyphs you need (you can add the font to the OS font dir or to the converter's install dir), ideally, the actual font used in the document
3. edit fonts.xml (you'll find it in the converter's install dir)

For example, suppose I have a document which uses fonts SimHei and 華康中黑體
but on my computer, I only have SimSun and Arial Unicode MS available.

I would place entries like the following in fonts.xml:

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  <font name="SimHei">
    <fallback name="SimSun"/>
    <fallback name="Arial Unicode MS"/>
  </font>

  <font name="華康中黑體">
    <fallback name="SimSun"/>
    <fallback name="Arial Unicode MS"/>
  </font>
 

Parsed in 0.001 seconds, using GeSHi 1.0.8.4

After editing fonts.xml, be sure to restart the pds conversion service, so it re-reads fonts.xml

[trytoplay38]

wow it works, but im wondering that the pdf file now got the water mark ## Evaluation Use only ##, how do i make it disappear?

[jason]

Buy a license, then install the license key

For more info, please email sales@plutext.com

[trytoplay38]

with the license, can we configure before the conversion? because i noticed that my document layout will run out after the conversion.

[jason]

Sorry, I don't understand the question?

[trytoplay38]

what i mean was, can we configure anything to make sure the PDF is the exactly the same look as the docx?

because i'm using the commercial converter to convert docx to pdf, i can see some layout is off compare with the docx.

[jason]

Generally speaking, if the PDF looks different to one output from Word, its a bug or an enhancement/feature request.

Right now, the main thing missing is comprehensive support for DrawingML/VML. You can work around this by avoiding that (and using a plain image instead).