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Export to PDF have problem with polish chars

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Janusz
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Janusz asked on 23 Jan 2015, 10:44 AM
From the version 2014.3.1119 we have got export to PDF.  This feature is really nice, but I cannot find a way to correctly display polish charactes in PDF. Probably in other languages it will be the same. Export to Excel from then same place works fine. I've tried on your demo (Kendo.Mvc.Demo) changing unit pdf_export.cshtml. below is the changed code and the screens.
[code]@(Html.Kendo().Grid<Kendo.Mvc.Examples.Models.EmployeeViewModel>()
.Name("grid")
.HtmlAttributes(new { style = "width: 900px; font-family: Arial Unicode MS" })
.Columns(columns =>
{
columns.Bound(e => e.EmployeeID).Width(140).Title("Zdjęcie");
columns.Bound(e => e.Title).Width(400).Title("Szczegóły");
............................
.ToolBar(tools => tools.Pdf())
.Pdf(pdf => pdf
.FileName("Kendo UI Grid Export.pdf")
.ProxyURL(Url.Action("Pdf_Export_Save", "Grid"))
)
.DataSource(dataSource => dataSource
.Ajax()
.Read(read => read.Action("Pdf_Export_Read", "Grid"))
)
..............................[/code]
Controler I've reminded unchanged. In webbrowse as well as in PDF Complete (and other pdf viewers) the polish characters are display wrong. Export to XLS  is OK. Is it possible in MVC to change default font name only for export to PDF.

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Janusz
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answered on 23 Jan 2015, 01:59 PM
Meanwhile I've found a solution. 
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<script>
    kendo.pdf.defineFont({
        "Verdana": "@Url.Content("~/Content/fonts/verdana.ttf")",
        "Verdana|Bold": "@Url.Content("~/Content/fonts/verdanab.ttf")",
        "Verdana|Bold|Italic": "@Url.Content("~/Content/fonts/verdanaz.ttf")",
        "Verdana|Italic": "@Url.Content("~/Content/fonts/verdanai.ttf")"
    });
</script>
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answered on 23 Jan 2015, 02:46 PM
Second solution is using CSS attribute @font-face like below.
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@font-face {
    font-family: "Segoe UI";
    src: url("fonts/segoeui.ttf") format("truetype");
}

@font-face {
    font-family: "Segoe UI";
    src: url("fonts/segoeuib.ttf") format("truetype");
    font-weight: bold;
}

@font-face {
    font-family: "Segoe UI";
    src: url("fonts/segoeuii.ttf") format("truetype");
    font-style: italic;
}

@font-face {
    font-family: "Segoe UI";
    src: url("fonts/segoeuiz.ttf") format("truetype");
    font-weight: bold;
    font-style: italic;
}
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And ensure that kendo grid uses the proper font.
...............
    .k-grid {
        font-family: "Segoe UI", "Arial", sans-serif;
    }
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Kiril Nikolov
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answered on 26 Jan 2015, 10:36 AM

Hello Janusz,

Yes, this is viable solution. The same is explained here as well:

http://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/framework/drawing/drawing-dom#custom-fonts-and-pdf

Regards,
Kiril Nikolov
Telerik
 

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