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I'm using DomPDF and PHP to create PDF Files. When the text is English everything is ok, but when I want to convert Persian text, output is broken
this is the example file that contains Persian and English text:
<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<style type="text/css">
body {
font-family: 'dejavu sans';
direction;rtl;
}
p {
font-size: 2em;
background: #eee;
padding: 1em;
}
h2 {
color: #999;
}
</style>
<style type="text/css"></style></head>
<body marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<div style="text-align:right">
<h2>Give You Glory</h2>
<br/>
Hadi
</div>
<br/>
هادی
</body></html>
this is output PDF file : http://i.stack.imgur.com/HOyMO.png
how can I fix this?
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okay, i think i have a solution to your problem. i can make a pdf that looks like what i think you're looking for. here's a screenshot of it
http://i.imgur.com/UBdkNDx.png
to do this, you have to use a different way of making pdfs than dompdf: wkhtmltox-php.
wkhtmltox-php is a custom php command compiled from source that uses the libwkhtmltox to make pdfs. installing it takes a bit of effort, but it will render your persian text as above and will be much faster than dompdf.
these instructions assume linux or similar as your os:
first: install wkhtmltopdf. there are pre-compiled binaries for most operating systems here:
http://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html
second: get and compile and install php-wkhtmltox.
cd /tmp/
wget https://github.com/mreiferson/php-wkhtmltox/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
cd php-wkhtmltox-master/
phpize
./configure
sudo make install
note: if you do not have phpize installed on your machine, you will need to install your php dev packages. note: if you get errors on configure or make install you will need to install c compilation tools like 'make' and 'gcc'
by reading the output of make install you will know what directory the module is located in. usually it's:
/usr/lib64/php/modules/
third: set php to know about this module in your php.ini file, add the following line under the section heading "Dynamic Extensions"
extension=phpwkhtmltox.so
fourth: run ldconfig
$ ldconfig
fifth: restart apache (or whatever httpd you are using)
finally: use it like so: for my example here, i'm just using a chess opening page from wikipedia since i don't have an url to your sample html.
<?php
/**
* the config_array has lots of options but the two most important are:
* "out" this is the full path to where you want your pdf made
* "imageQuality" basically the same as jpg image quality. lower quality is slower, higher quality is a bigger file
*/
$config_array = array( "out" => "/tmp/pdfdocument.pdf",
"imageQuality" => 95);
/**
* the array of urls that are the input html for making your pdf. note that these are not files, but urls
* also note that this is an array of arrays keyed by "page"
*/
$htmls_array = array(array("page"=>"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen's_Gambit_Declined"));
/**
* run the conver like so and your pdf file should be on disk
*/
wkhtmltox_convert('pdf', $config_array, $htmls_array);
?>
if you look at the screenshot i posted above, it looks like phpwkhtmltox does the job right.
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