Is this an active project?

[jgrasmeder]

I have been using Alive PDF 0.1.5 for many years now with great results. The reason for this inquiry is that I now have been given a new requirement to support localization. One of the first languages is Taiwanese Traditional Chinese. Currently, I am running into issues getting the class PDF() and or UnicodePDF() to work. I have downloaded the latest code base 0.1.7 RC but still no luck. I have not been able to locate any sample code that would help to get the method calls correct. I am using the following example with the output not looking good.

	public function Test()
	{
		try
		{
			pdf=new UnicodePDF();
			pdf.setDisplayMode(Display.FULL_PAGE, Layout.SINGLE_PAGE);
			pdf.addPage();
			pdf.setFont(new ArialUnicodeMS(CidInfo.CHINESE_TRADITIONAL),20);
			pdf.addText("Hello World!", 0, 10);
			pdf.addText("你好，世界", 0, 30);// zh_TW Taiwanese Traditional Chinese
		}
		catch (err:Error)
		{
			trace("Error found in PDF " + err.toString());
			//errorMsg = "Failed to create PDF file"; //todo get from resource
		}
	}

	public function save(method:String):ByteArray
	{
		var rtnValue:ByteArray=new ByteArray;
		rtnValue=pdf.save(method);
		return rtnValue;
	}

//////PDF output
//////
Hello World!
你好｜
///////
/////// As you can see the Chinese pdf.addTest() call has been chopped
//////
Do you have a better example of working code? Is this still an active project? I am not seeing much activity and 15 or so issues dealing with language support sitting for multiple years in the queue of issues.

[Ender22]

@jgrasmeder Did you ever find a workaround for this? I'm facing a similar issue

[jgrasmeder]

No, we did not. We ended up going a different route, turns out we also needed a way to create/export data as an Excel spreadsheet so we ended up using a third-party application ($$$) that did both PDF and Excel output using template files and .xlst files.

[Ender22]

No, we did not. We ended up going a different route, turns out we also needed a way to create/export data as an Excel spreadsheet so we ended up using a third-party application ($$$) that did both PDF and Excel output using template files and .xlst files.

Okay thanks for replying, cheers