Friday, February 3, 2012

The Arabic Character Displayed is Unreadable With PDF Format Reports

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Problem: The Arabic Character Displayed is Unreadable With PDF Format Reports


Symptoms:
When viewing the out put of a report such as "Payroll Employee Detailed Insurance" with PDF
format, junk characters are displayed instead of the Arabic characters.

Unpublished Bug 4182914 ARABIC CHARACTERS GARBLED ON SOURCING RFQ PDF.


Solution:

To implement the solution, please execute the following steps:

1. Apply Patch 4182914.
2. Change the output of your report to be postscript or text (Arabic characters ae not supported in PDF output).
3. In pasta.cfg remove ";" from this line:
preprocess=ps2pdf {infile} {outfile}

Using 3rd party utilities such as Ghostscript or Xpdf. Pasta provides an interface to integrate
those 3rd party utilities. Please refer to preprocess option in Pasta configuration file options.

The latest version of Ghostscript can be found at: www.ghostscript.com. .

A list of output devices available in Ghostscript can be located at:
http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/devices.html
http://www.ghostscript.com.



References:

The Arabic Character Displayed is Unreadable With PDF Format Reports [ID 343954.1]


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