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Problems with Unicode and ExportToDisk to PDF

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Category: Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005 and Newer
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Printed Date: 03 Apr 2025 at 6:41pm


Topic: Problems with Unicode and ExportToDisk to PDF
Posted By: kalliman
Subject: Problems with Unicode and ExportToDisk to PDF
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2015 at 8:14pm
I have a small program which prints a document, which contains Chinese and Arabic symbols and then saves it as PDF. Printing works perfect, but the generated PDF doesn't display the Chinese characters correctly.

Here is the sample pseudo code of my program

Code:
CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument reportDocument = new ...;
...
reportDocument.PrintToPrinter(printersettings, pagesettings, false); // this works perfect. E.g. I have the Chinese printed via physical printer.
reportDocument.ExportToDisk(ExportFormatType.PortableDocFormat, m_FileName); // Here when open the pdf I see a squares instead of Chinese symbols.
I tried to change the font in rpt to "Arial Unicode MS" or "Lucida Sans" or to many other fonts, which should support Unicode but no effect. I can see the Araby letters, but cannot see the Chinese.
If I change the font to "MingLiU", the Chinese symbols are displayed OK in the PDF, but then I can't see the Arabic letters

Thanks in advance,
Kalin


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