£ Problem in PDF

[jmaskell]

Hi

Whenever i go to Print as PDF on a quote i get the odd symbol  before the GBP Symbol ( £ ) in the PDF document.

Does anyone know the solution to this?

Attached is a screenshot.


Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks A lot


Jake Maskell

[ddturbo]

Hi,

i solved a similar issue by some changes in quote template

you may find the templates modules/Quotes/layouts where Standard.php is for quotes

if you wanna customize your quotes and bills you should have a look at: http://www.sugarcrm.com/wiki/index.p...quote_template


to fix the problem you have to add

163=>'sterling'

to $euro_diff array

 $euro_diff = array(
2=>'Euro',
163=>'sterling'
); 
  

Then you have to enclose every string you want the special symbols to be printed with

 mb_convert_encoding($here_is_your_string, "ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8"); 
  

ie. pound symbol is in latin1 / iso-8859-1 charset

so for example:

 mb_convert_encoding(format_number($focus->total, $locale->getPrecision(), $locale->getPrecision(), $format_number_array)"ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8"); 
  

This should work. If anyone has some better ideas please tell me.
I am wondering how to put characters from different charsets into same document (and same string)

For example something like Ł (polish) and £.

Deniz

[jmaskell]

Hi

Thanks for the quick reply glad someone is willing to help.

i have added.

$euro_diff = array(
2=>'Euro',
163=>'sterling'
);

to " Standard.php "


But I don't quite understand what you mean by " Then you have to enclose every string you want the special symbols to be printed with "

Could you please expline in more detail

sorry im new to Sugar


Thanks for the help i realy apretiate it.


Jake Maskell

[ddturbo]

Hi Jake,

thats no problem ....

the template system is using ezPDF for creation of documnets. This has several input methods like addText(), ezTable(), etc...

you can try this documentation http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf/readme.pdf


so, for example the grand total is written as a table
if you go to line 285 in Standard.php there should be declared an array $total

entries are like $total[<#>]['<rowname>']='<value>'

now changing line 303 from

 $total[3]['VALUE'] =  format_number($focus->total, $locale->getPrecision(), $locale->getPrecision(), $format_number_array); 
  

to

 $total[3]['VALUE'] =  mb_convert_encoding(format_number($focus->total, $locale->getPrecision(), $locale->getPrecision(), $format_number_array), "ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8"); 
  

should do what you are looking for

Deniz