TCPDF is a-little-great HTML to PDF conversion PHP library. One of main problem, I (and lot others) had encountered displaying extended characters (like European). To resolve this, you need set $unicode parameter false and pass $encoding parameter other character set. Most of given example comes with, $unicode=true and $encoding=’UTF-8′. Below different examples:
Default for UTF-8 unicode:
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$pdf = new TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, true, 'UTF-8', false);
Example of constructor for European charset:
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$pdf = new TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, false, 'ISO-8859-1', false);
Notice above, 4th and 5th params. 4th is $unicode and 5th is encoding params respectively
Example from TCPDF, for extended chars:
- PHP: http://www.tcpdf.org/examples/example_008.phps
- PDF: http://www.tcpdf.org/examples/example_008.pdf
Further reading:
http://www.tcpdf.org/performances.php (4th point)
