[Lazarus] LazReport Images and Unicode

Jesus Reyes jesusrmx at yahoo.com.mx
Wed Jan 16 19:12:08 CET 2013



--- El lun 14-ene-13, Giuliano Colla <giuliano.colla at fastwebnet.it> escribió:

> 2) Report printout shows the Image, but skips Chinese
> characters.
>

That's correct, TPostscriptCanvas do not support all unicode, Latin and Cyrillic should be fine though.
 
> 3) Pdf export shows the image, but replaces Chinese
> characters with question marks. I understand that PowerPdf
> doesn't support Unicode, but changing the font encoding from
> Unicode to Big5 doesn't help.

That's correct, PowerPdf is limited to Latin scripts.

> 
> 4) Html export shows the Chinese characters, but doesn't
> show the image.
> 

Yes, it doesn't export images. I think an option can be added to html exporter so it can export images too.

> 5) Text export shows the Chinese characters, but obviously
> doesn't show the image.

That's correct.

> 
> Is there a way to get a printout which properly reproduces
> the Report preview?
> 
> Can someone point me in the right direction?
> 
> Giuliano
>

There are at least two solutions, according to bug report http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=15161 using Qt interface should work. The other solution is exporting pages as images with Image Exporter, that I can confirm it does ok, see LazReport/source/addons/imgexport/lr_extexp.lpk

There is another possibility, for the future, time ago petr kristan made a CairoCanvas object that can be used instead of TPostscriptPrinterCanvas. After I fixed some things I made it work again but showing Chinese text and images was unsuccessful. It currently uses plain cairo to show text, I will try to improve it.

Jesus Reyes A.






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