"Reporting Extension: character encoding issue"

jeszy
jeszy New Altair Community Member
edited November 5 in Community Q&A
Hello,

I would like to generate a PDF report on Linux. I have experienced
problems with the handling of non-Latin-1 characters, some of the
accented characters available in Latin-2 are missing from the
resulting PDF document. I tried to change the fonts in the Reporter
Settings dialog but it does not help.

Any idea how to solve the problem?

Best regards,
Peter
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  • jeszy
    jeszy New Altair Community Member
    The extension uses the excellent iText library to generate PDF
    documents. As I see, the character encoding is fixed to "WINANSI"
    in class com.rapidminer.report.PdfReportStream, that is a major
    limitation.

    Best regards,
    Peter
  • land
    land New Altair Community Member
    Hi Peter,
    do you have an Enterprise Edition? Then please send a ticket over the usual ticket system. Otherwise please post a feature request to out bugtracker. It's a really unnecessary restriction as I think the report in general is able to handle encodings. It seems to me, this code lines have been forgotten since a non standard way of defining encoding is used here by iText.

    Greetings,
    Sebastian

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