Hello,

I'm working on a project that generates PDF files.
In these PDF's, there's some barcodes, and on the top of them, there's
some text, written with the function show.

My problem is when I do a doc.show('tété') : the 'é' don't appear like
they may, but as  'Ø'.

Can someone help me ?

Thanks.

Florian

What's encoding you are using?
Execute the code below to get the ideal encoding for your Ruby code.

require 'rghost'
RGhost::Config.encode_test('tété').render :pdf, :filename =>
'/tmp/mytest.pdf'

On http://rghost.rubyforge.org [rdoc and manual] has many docs about
encoding and charset convertion.

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Shairon Toledo
http://www.hashcode.eti.br

As the encode_test PDF shows it, the IsoLatin should be good, but when
I try

doc=Document.new :font_encoding => 'IsoLatin'
or
doc.show('tété', :font_encoding => 'IsoLatin'),

the result is the same, the 'é' are written as 'Ø'...

You must define what font tag will use the enconding, see

 d=RGhost::Document.new :encoding => 'IsoLatin'
 d.define_tags do
   tag :myfont, :name => 'Helvetica', :encoding => true, :size => 8,  :color
=> '#00FF33'
   tag :times,  :name => 'Times', :color => '#ADAD66' #here, without
encoding
 end
 d.show "tété", :with => :myfont

Thanks !