[Silverlight] Umlaute (ä ü ö) in PDF Export

[Jens]

Hey,

I'm using a RadfixedDocument to create a Report and the PdfFormatProvider to export the Report to PDF.

Everything works fine, except for german Umlaut Letters (ä, ö, ü). They just disappear in the generated PDF. I couldn't find a switch in the Export Settings or anything else, can you give me some directions?

 Cheers,

Jens

[Deyan]

Hello Jens,

Thank you for contacting us.

As mentioned in this RadPdfProcessing fonts documentation article all fonts that are not from the standard 14 fonts should be embedded in the PDF file. Due to Silverlight limitations we cannot access the system font files and cannot embed them by default in Silverlight. This causes the issue with the missing umlaut letters.

In order to workaround this issue there are two options:

• Make the used font files as embedded resource to your project and register them through the fonts repository.
• Use service that gives you the font data and register the received font data. You may see how exactly this can be achieved in this RadSpreadProcessing SDK example. This Silverlight project uses the services from this web project to receive the font data. You may see how the service gets the font data in this GetFontData method.

I am attaching a demo PDF file that contains correctly exported umlaut letters. This PDF file is exported by slightly modifying the worksheet content in the RadSpreadProcessing SDK example.

I hope this is helpful. If you have any other questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact us again.

Regards,
Deyan
the Telerik team

[Jens]

Thanks for the example.

Workaround was to use docx Export instead ;)

Cheers,

Jens