PDF conversion for chineese characters in Unicode system

I am facing a problem while converting the SAP Script Output to PDF format for Chinese characters.
I am working on ECC (5.0) Unicode system.
Scenario:
After saving a Purchase Order an E-mail is sent to the customer - attaching the
PO output in PDF format. E-mail was received successfully by the receiver, but while opening the pdf all the chinese characters were displayed in junk characters in the pdf. All the English characters are properly displayed. I tried to open the pdf file in Acrobat Reader versions 6.0, 7.0, 8.0. but no result. I used CONVERT_OTF function module for converting the OTF format to PDF format. I tried using the fonts CNSONG also.
I tried by executing the standard program RSTXPDFT4 for converting to PDF by giving the spool. In the spool it is showing the Chinese characters perfectly but in the PDF the Chinese characters were were showing as Junk.
Can you please help and advice to see the Chinese characters in PDF in Unicode systems.
Thanks in advance.

>
Juraj Danko wrote:
> Hi,
> I have similar problem than you ... how have you solved it?
> thanks
> Juraj
I found a solution, but I am not sure, if it was for this problem or
output problem with for example PL in non-unicode systems.
I created the input for CONVERT_OTF with CALL FUNCTION 'PRINT_TEXT'.
PRINT_TEXT has to be called with DEVICE = 'PRINTER',
DEVICE = 'ABAP' uses internally the wrong code page.
You have also to set otf_options-tdprinter to a valid printer,
if it is empty, the default printer from user settings is used.
You can use code example from SAP note 413295.
Before you call CONVERT_OTF, you can also check entries with 'FC' in OTF input.
The font (see description of OTF format in SAP help) must be set like described in SAP note 144718.
/Tibor
Edited by: Tibor Gerke on Jan 13, 2011 10:29 AM

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Before you call CONVERT_OTF, you can also check entries with 'FC' in OTF input.
The font (see description of OTF format in SAP help) must be set like described in SAP note 144718.
/Tibor
Edited by: Tibor Gerke on Jan 13, 2011 10:29 AM

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Hi All,
We are facing a typical issue with Printing of Latin -2 characters in PDFs.
These are characters from the Polish language for e.g. char 'Ń'.
These were originally printing as # in the Production system. After raising a message with SAP, they came up with the advice of uploading Latin-2 fonts using note 141343.
However when I did a test in the sandbox system, the character 'Ń' is replaced by character 'C' and not '#'. This was even before I could upload an appropriate font! I am confused as to why this is happening.
Any help appreciated.
Regards,
Jitender.

Hi ...
we had a similar kind of problem ..in which the special characters were coming in development and quality systems..but when they were moved to production system..the special characters were not coming and the desire characters were getting printed...this was becuase of the difference betwwen the codepage of dev and production systems.....So i think in your case also the same may work....
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We have a function module that we've written to replace non-permitted characters with a space in transfer rules. We see a lot of invisible hexidecimal characters coming in free form text fields. This work great for English. However, we have a Unicode system with other languages installed. We are also getting the hex characters in other character sets.
Has anyone dealt with this issue and if so what was you solution?
Thanks!
Al

Hello aLaN,
how r u ?
Hey we have faced the problem with Hexadecimal characters, but not the same issue. In our case the problem was in the Source System. In the DB Tables we had some unwanted characters, that was showing some errors while data loading, particularly ERROR 18.
So we resolved it by changing the Source System data.
I have already posted for the hexadecimal issue.... the replies was
I think this is related to Invalid character issues.. or SPaces setting in RSKC..
may be you want to look at eh following post..
Re: invalid characters
/people/siegfried.szameitat/blog/2005/07/18/text-infoobjects-part-1
Example:
let us say..
1. Check in RSKC for allowed characters..
2. Add a code in the update rule to restrict the texts contains..
!"%&''()*+,-./:;<=>?_0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' are allowed characters in RSKC transaction then other than the above character is 'Invalid' including the smaller case letters and will throw the hex.. error.
since this is from database system even 'NULL' datatype from there is not visble to the eyes and can cause the failure.
Hope this helps
Best Regards....
Sankar Kumar
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