[Catalyst] Template Toolkit: Filter-PDF+Asian Characters(Japanese)

[Ash Berlin]

On 11 Mar 2008, at 11:18, <sindharta_tanuwijaya at yahoo.co.jp> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have been looking for ways to display/download one of my pages  
> (templates) as a PDF file and perhaps one of the easiest ways is by  
> using the pdf filter function from Template Toolkit.
>
> [%- USE Latex(format='pdf') - %]
> [%- FILTER latex  -%]
> bla bla english <good!>
> some Japanese here <wrong !>
> [%- END -%]
>
> The problem is, although I have been successful in getting pdf files  
> which consists of only alphabet characters, it seems that I can't  
> get kanji  (converted to UTF-8) characters displayed correctly.
>
> I am not sure if the problem only lies within pdflatex (or latex)  
> command in my cygwin setup, which I have been trying to fix for a  
> whole day, but still doesn't work. Or if it also involves another  
> setting or module that I have to install for Template Toolkit.
>
> I am wondering if anyone has been successful in doing it, or perhaps  
> knows a better way to do it ?
> This should be obvious, but the PDF is not static since I want to  
> list some dynamic data, such as purchased goods by a certain  
> customer for example.
>
> Sindharta
>
>
>

This will be a (pdf)latex issue.

You need to add this to the preamble of the document somehow:

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

Then assuming that the typeface you are using has the kanji glyphs  
that *should* be all you need.

-ash