Special characters problem on XP

mau · Post by **mau** » Tue Jun 22 2004

Hello,
I'm developing an activex that has a function to convert word and html document to pdf using amyuni pdf converter printer driver.
I need to use microsoft word also to convert html document.
The problem is that if in the html document there are some special characters (Ã Ã¨Ã¬Ã²Ã¹) the conversion doesn't do what I expected, the characters change.
I'm using version 2.09, the os is Windows XP, the problem doesn't seem to appear in Windows 2000.
Is this problem known? And if it is, anyone has some suggestions for resolve this?
I tried to change manually the setup of the printer driver using all combinations but nothing plays well.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Maurizio

Joan · Post by **Joan** » Thu Jun 24 2004

Hello,

To print special characters to the PDF Printer there is many combinations in the printer properties, you need to check Multilangual support and Font Embedding.

So you need to call FileNameOptions as follows:
FileNameOptions= 1 + 2 + 10 + 128 //NoPrompt + UseFileName + FontEmbedding + MultilingualSupport

This should work on both 2000 and XP. If not please send us your sample document to support@amyuni.com so we can try to reproduce this issue and see what is happening.

mau · Post by **mau** » Fri Jun 25 2004

Thank you Joan for your help,

just a little thing in your message: it's not 10 but 16.

I know, it's just because 10 hexadecimal is 16, but the code was wrong.

Anyway I found something about that in your faq, too.

Ciao
Maurizio

Joan · Post by **Joan** » Tue Jun 29 2004

Hello Mau,

Thanks for the note about Font Embedding, you are right, it should be 16, i used the hexadecimal value without paying attention.

It is good that you mentioned it so other users checking this forum will not try the wrong value.

Have a nice day,