[cl-pdf-devel] Unicode issue

[Marc Battyani]

Levente Mészáros wrote:
> Hi,
>
> May I ask some help?
>
> I have attached an example which results in a wrong pdf (see image). Both evince
> and acroread under feisty ubuntu displays wrong characters (i.e.
> boxes).
>
> AFAICT the problem is related to unicode encoding, escaping in pdf
> (for parenthesis) and external formats. I'm using SBCL and the latest
> cl-pdf, cl-typesetting versions.
>
> The example uses a unicode font and simply puts a string into the
> output document which contains #\Space #\(  #\) and a few other
> characters. Both parenthesis and space are needed to produce the wrong
> pdf.
>
> If you don't have the font you may download it from:
> http://files-upload.com/files/548738/FreeSerif.tar
>
> And if you wish to download the resulting pdf go to:
> http://files-upload.com/files/548742/hello.pdf
>
> Sorry about the 30 seconds...
>   
Unfortunately, the unicode integration is still in an alpha state as
I've never found the time to continue it :(
I will look at your example to see if I can make a fix for it.

Cheers,
 
Marc