Unicode characters missing in cfdocument pdf

[Sean_S1]

I’ve been attempting to figure out why unicode characters aren’t showing up in my PDF on Lucee 6 on windows 2022. They are just blank. I can verify the Chinese chars in the HTML but the PDF is just blank. I’ve tried making a fonts.jar file with simsun.ttf in it with the proper line in pd4fonts.properties. I’ve tried doing various CSS ways to include the local files. I’ve tried doing font directory pointing at a font directly with the .ttf and the fonts.jar . so far no luck. Any other ideas I can try?

This is all with type=“modern” for cfdocument

I’m using fontembed="true" in the cfdocument

I’ve attempted using fontdirectory in two ways.

fontdirectory="D:\fonts"
fontdirectory="#expandPath('../fonts')#"

I’ve attempted putting the fonts.jar file in the following:

D:\Lucee\lib
D:\Lucee\jre\lib
D:\Lucee\tomcat\lucee-server\context\lib

I’ve tried putting the SimSun.tff here
D:\Lucee\tomcat\lucee-server\context\fonts

Anyone have any ideas on what I can try next or what I’m doing wrong? Thanks.

Don’t forget to tell us about your stack!

OS: Windows Server 2022 Datacenter
Java Version: 11.0.23
Tomcat Version: 9.0.89
Lucee Version: 6.1.1.118

[Terry_Whitney]

Take a look at both of these threads.

cfdocument :: Lucee Documentation

Custom Fonts in CFDocument

I’m not sure I have a specific question, at this point. I have, as far as I can tell, followed the instructions meticulously, but I can’t get my fonts to print to a pdf generated by cfdocument. Here’s what I’ve tried. If anyone can tell me what I’m missing, I would certainly appreciate it. I downloaded the fonts.jar from Log in with Atlassian account, changed it to a zip, added my .ttf files, updated the pd4fonts.properties files, saved and renamed to fonts.jar. I verified that the .ttf and…

[cmarvin]

Did you ever solve this issue? I am having the same problem.

[Sean_S1]

I never did figure this out. I wish there was a clear use this jar file of fonts and put it here and it’ll work.

I had to do a round about method to generate these. Since these aren’t common that have chars that aren’t displaying right, I have to output an HTML page and then print and save as PDF. Not ideal at all. It worked enough until I can find time to work on this again.

[cmarvin]

Thanks for your reply - I was finally able to get it working. I ended up using the fontdirectory attribute of cfdocument.

[Sean_S1]

cmarvin , can you post the code you were using with cfdocument using fontdirectory to make this work?

[cmarvin]

<cfdocument overwrite="yes" format="pdf" pagetype="A4" orientation="portrait" fontEmbed="true" unit="cm" localUrl="true" filename="#ExpandPath('/temp/')##newFileName#.pdf" marginleft="0" marginright="0" fontdirectory="#expandPath('/fonts/')#" >

Here you are - I think the trick is to use the proper font names when calling them. They are specified in the ttf files themselves.