Displaying Chinese Characters

[starrystep]

Hello everyone, I intend to generate a PDF in Chinese. But the Chinese characters become "?" in the PDF (English characters are fine.)

Here is the solution I have tried: 1.1. Added simhei.ttf in fonts directory (ALSO tried it in public/fonts) 1.2. And added the CSS below in my blade.php. But it is not working

Is there any way I could solve this problem?

This is the current output:

[erikn69]

This package is only a Laravel wrapper for Dompdf HTML to PDF Converter, that is specified in the first line of the README.md

[MCKLtech]

This is how I did it, having read a number of the issues on the Dompdf tracker. Two observations:

• The font you are using matters greatly, so if it's not working, check the font you are importing.
• There is a bug in this library with setting options, this is what I have a convoluted approach below. If you don't set isFontSubsettingEnabled equal to true, your PDF size will be huge. By adding it, I went from 8mb to less than 500kb

`<?php

use Barryvdh\DomPDF\Facade\Pdf; use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage;

//Get the default settings $options = PDF::getDomPDF()->getOptions(); $options->set('isFontSubsettingEnabled', true);

$pdf = PDF::setPaper('a4', 'landscape'); //Set the options, if we use the included function, the defaults are overwritten and this leads to weird behaviour. $pdf->getDomPDF()->setOptions($options); $pdf->loadView('pdf.show', ['attributes' => 'stuff']);

//Store to S3 (or output as you wish) Storage::put('my-file.pdf', $pdf->output());

//pdf.show View

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