Visualforce Render as pdf - special characters missing

Hi,
Im trying to render visualforce page as pdf. We have special characters in my language such as ě,š,č,ř,ž,ý,á,í. Some of them are missing on the pdf (e.g. č or ř) while the rest of them are there fine. Can anyone help me with this?
Thank you very much

November 15, 2015
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Best Answer chosen by Lukas Razim 26

pcon
The problem is that most fonts don't contain the right unicode characters required to render those characters. You can set the font in the pdf [1] and this resolves your issue. Below is an example of a Visualforce page that will show you how the render in different fonts supported by the platform:

<apex:page showHeader="false" renderAs="pdf"> <table border="1" cellpadding="6"> <tr> <th>Font Name</th> <th>Style <code>font-family</code> Value to Use (Synonyms)</th> </tr> <tr> <td>Arial Unicode MS</td> <td> <ul> <li> Arial Unicode MS - ě,š,č,ř,ž,ý,á,í </li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Helvetica</td> <td> <ul> <li>sans-serif - ě,š,č,ř,ž,ý,á,í</li> <li>SansSerif - ě,š,č,ř,ž,ý,á,í</li> <li>Dialog - ě,š,č,ř,ž,ý,á,í</li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Times</td> <td> <ul> <li>serif - ě,š,č,ř,ž,ý,á,í</li> <li>Times - ě,š,č,ř,ž,ý,á,í</li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Courier</td> <td> <ul> <li>monospace - ě,š,č,ř,ž,ý,á,í</li> <li>Courier - ě,š,č,ř,ž,ý,á,í</li> <li>Monospaced - ě,š,č,ř,ž,ý,á,í</li> <li>DialogInput - ě,š,č,ř,ž,ý,á,í</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> </apex:page>

Based on it's ouput (image below) the only font that supports all the characters is Arial Unicode MS. So you'll want to use that

November 16, 2015
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pcon
Can you please provide a simple Visualforce page that reproduces this issue?

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Nishant Dubey 7
Serbian characters š,đ,č,ć,ž are not included in Abode. please visit adobe site or following link
https://forums.adobe.com/message/3265826

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Lukas Razim 26
@pcon: For example this one below it is from salesforce labs app Invoice, Quote, Order. I wanted to translate this one but when I for example use číslo faktury instead of Invoice Number, the č is missing.

<apex:page standardController="Opportunity" showHeader="false" renderas="pdf">

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" id="table1">
<tr>
<td>
<img src='{!URLFOR($Resource.Logo4567687)}' title="logo" />
</td>
<td align="right">
Invoice for {!Opportunity.Account.Name} 
</td>



</tr>

<hr/>

</table>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" id="table1">
<tr> <td>
{!$Organization.Name} 
{!$Organization.Street} 
{!$Organization.PostalCode} {!$Organization.City} 
{!$Organization.Country} 
</td>
<td width="60%"> </td>
<td >Invoice number (číslo faktury): <apex:repeat value="{!Opportunity.Invoices__r}" var="line2">
{!line2.name}</apex:repeat> 


Invoice Date: <apex:repeat value="{!Opportunity.Invoices__r}" var="line2">
{!line2.Invoice_Date__c} </apex:repeat></td>


</tr>
</table>
 
<hr/>
Address Information

<table border="0" width="100%" id="table2">
<tr>
<td colspan="3">
Account name: {!Opportunity.Account.Name} 
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
Bill To: 
{!Opportunity.Account.BillingStreet} 
{!Opportunity.Account.BillingPostalCode} {!Opportunity.Account.BillingCity}

</td>
<td width="50%"></td>
<td >
Ship To: 
{!Opportunity.Account.ShippingStreet} 
{!Opportunity.Account.ShippingPostalCode} {!Opportunity.Account.ShippingCity}

</td>
</tr>
</table>
 
<hr/>
Products
<table border="0" width="100%" id="table4">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Product</td>
<td bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Description</td>
<td bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Image</td>
<td bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Quantity</td>
<td bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Unit Price</td>
<td bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Total Price</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<apex:repeat value="{!Opportunity.OpportunityLineItems}" var="line">
<tr>
<td>{!line.PricebookEntry.Name}</td>
<td>{!line.Description}</td>
<td ALIGN="center"><img src='{!line.PricebookEntry.Product2.URL_Picture__c}'/></td>
<td>{!line.Quantity}</td>
<td><apex:OutputField value="{!line.UnitPrice}"/></td>
<td><apex:OutputField value="{!line.TotalPrice}"/></td>
</tr>
</apex:repeat>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#C0C0C0" align="right" colspan="6">
Total: <apex:OutputField value="{!Opportunity.Amount}"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
 
<hr/>
Terms and Conditions
<table border="0" width="100%" id="table3">
<tr>


<td>
Payment Method: <apex:OutputField value="{!Opportunity.QuotePaymentMode__c}"/> 
Payment Terms:  <apex:OutputField value="{!Opportunity.QuotePaymentTime__c}"/> 
Billing Frequency:  <apex:OutputField value="{!Opportunity.QuoteBillingFrequency__c}"/> 

</td>
</tr>
</table>
 
{!Opportunity.Conditions__c}
 
<hr/>
<table width="100%" id="table5">
Special Terms:
</table>
 
<hr/>
Copyright {!$Organization.Name}.
</apex:page>

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Lukas Razim 26
@Nishant: Im not sure if understand, what does it have to do with Adobe in this case? Sorry, Im not really developer oriented so I might have stupid questions to you. Thanks very much

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Lukas Razim 26
got it @pcon it works great Thank you!!

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