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@@ -28,14 +28,14 @@ text, drawing and images. * Templates * Barcodes * Charting facility +* UTF-8 support gofpdf has no dependencies other than the Go standard library. All tests pass on Linux, Mac and Windows platforms. -Like FPDF version 1.7, from which gofpdf is derived, this package does not yet -support UTF-8 fonts. In particular, languages that require more than one code -page such as Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic are not currently supported. This is -explained in [issue 109](https://github.com/jung-kurt/gofpdf/issues/109). However, support is provided to automatically translate +gofpdf supports UTF-8 fonts. + +Also, support is provided to automatically translate UTF-8 runes to code page encodings for languages that have fewer than 256 glyphs. @@ -135,7 +135,9 @@ for all examples. Nothing special is required to use the standard PDF fonts (courier, helvetica, times, zapfdingbats) in your documents other than calling SetFont(). -In order to use a different TrueType or Type1 font, you will need to generate a +You should use AddUTF8Font or AddUTF8FontFromBytes to add UTF-8 TTF font. + +In order to use a different non-UTF-8 TrueType or Type1 font, you will need to generate a font definition file and, if the font will be embedded into PDFs, a compressed version of the font file. This is done by calling the MakeFont function or using the included makefont command line utility. To create the utility, cd @@ -225,12 +227,10 @@ which the internal catalogs were not sorted stably. Paul Montag added encoding and decoding functionality for templates, including images that are embedded in templates; this allows templates to be stored independently of gofpdf. Paul also added support for page boxes used in printing PDF documents. Wojciech -Matusiak added supported for word spacing. +Matusiak added supported for word spacing. Artem Korotkiy added support of UTF-8 fonts. ## Roadmap -* Handle UTF-8 source text natively. Until then, automatic translation of -UTF-8 runes to code page bytes is provided. * Improve test coverage as reported by the coverage tool. |