I am trying to create malayalam pdfs using TCPDF.
As per the manual, i had converted the fonts (using http://fonts.snm-portal.com/) and had added them. It is working but is not working correctly.
The words like 'ന്യൂഡല്ഹി, ഉത്തരവിട്ടെന്നും, എത്രയും'. are
displayed as 'ന^യൂഡല്ഹി, ഉത^തരവിട^ടനെനും, എത^രയും'.
I am using 'kartika.ttf' font now and had tried some other malayalam fonts.
The database, tables, fields and the site are in 'utf-8' format.
Is there any solution for this problem?
Is it possible to show/save as pdf format using indian fonts?
Scratch my last comment. As far as I've been able to find, TCPDF does not support indic scripts. For more information see the comments on this blog post http://thottingal.in/blog/2011/05/07/language-ecosystem-sourashtra/
Python's PyPDFLib http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pypdflib should be able to render the sample text you provided correctly however.
I wanted to test that pango, which underlies PyPDFLib, would handle the string you provided above. So I used another package built on it. I rendered it with rsvg. http://rrbits.com/malayalam.pdf [Note: The text should show up in the Kartika font, and I can't really tell if it's 100% correct due to my lack of knowledge, but I do know it's a lot closer than anything I extracted out of TCPDF. My version of pango is also ancient.]
