I wrote a code  generating an e-mail with a PDF attachment. I checked the code through the IDE (Eclipse) and all works fine.

Running the same code but using a button in a VisualForce page to activate the method  I received "PDF generation failed. Check the page markup is valid. " message.

The IDE code and the CommandButton code call the same method send().

If instead of getContentAsPDF I use only getContent the Command button works OK.

Following is the code 

         }  

    public void send() {

        // Define the email

         Messaging.SingleEmailMessage  email = new Messaging.SingleEmailMessage();   

         Messaging.EmailFileAttachment EFA = new Messaging.EmailFileAttachment();

              if (SP.SPEmail__c!= null)

        {

//         toaddresses = new String []{SP.SPEmail__c};

//        String[] CCaddresses ='gustavo@hotmail.com';

        }

        PageReference newPage = new PageReference(QuotaLetter);

        Blob blobFormPDF = null;

            system.debug('******LLEGUE******');

       if (!Test.isRunningTest()){//unable to call .getContent() within tests

            blobFormPDF = newPage.getContentAsPDF();

        } 

        //String[] toAddresses = addresses.split(':', 0);

        // Sets the paramaters of the email

        email.setReplyTo(replyto);

        email.setSubject( subject );

        email.setToAddresses( toaddresses );

        email.setCcAddresses (ccaddresses);       

 //       email.setToAddresses(new String[] { EMAIL_ADDRESS });

 //     email.setPlainTextBody( body );

        email.setPlainTextBody( 'This is the message body' );

//      Set the Attachment

        EFA.setFileName(FileName);

        EFA.setBody(blobFormPDF);

        email.setFileAttachments(new Messaging.EmailFileAttachment[]{EFA});

        // Sends the email

        Messaging.SendEmailResult [] r =

        Messaging.sendEmail(new Messaging.SingleEmailMessage[] {email});

       if (r[0].isSuccess()==True){

         estado_del_email='Sent';

         system.debug('****SENT*****');

Next is the code used in the IDE

            Public sendEmail SE=new sendEmail();

  SE.replyto = 'gustavopipman@hotmail.com';

    SE.toaddresses.add( 'gustavopipman@hotmail.com');

    SE.ccaddresses.add('gustavopipman@hotmail.com');

    SE.subject = 'Gustavo Pipman Quota Letter 2012';

    SE.FileName= 'Gustavo Pipman Quota Letter 2012';

    SE.QuotaLetter = 'https://c.na7.visual.force.com/apex/Sale_People_Letter?id=a01A0000008tEJ3';

SE.send();

And finnally is the code belonging to the action of the commandbutton

     Public void sendemail(){

    SalesPeople = [select name from Sale_Manager__c where name = :SMN];

    SE.replyto = 'gustavopipman@hotmail.com';

    SE.toaddresses.add( 'gustavopipman@hotmail.com');

    SE.ccaddresses.add('gustavopipman@hotmail.com');

    SE.subject = 'Gustavo Pipman Quota Letter 2012';

    SE.FileName= 'Gustavo Pipman Quota Letter 2012';

    SE.QuotaLetter = 'https://c.na7.visual.force.com/apex/Sale_People_Letter?id=a01A0000008tEJ3';

    SE.send();

    update SalesPeople ;

I also add the Page code with commandButton

</apex:page>

<apex:page controller="SalesPeopleMethods"   title="SPsetinfo" action="{!SPsetinfo}" sidebar="False">

    <apex:form >

               <apex:pageBlock >

<table border ='2' width='250' height='100'>

<tr> <th width='70%' height='70'>Food</th>

<th>Drink</th> <th>Sweet</th></tr>

<tr> <td>A</td> <td>B</td> <td>C</td></tr>

</table>

                     <apex:dataTable value="{!SalesPList}" var="b"   columns="2" width="200px"

                     columnsWidth="90px,10px">

                           <apex:column headerValue="Name" width="95%">   

                            <apex:outputField value="{!b.name}"/>

            </apex:column>  

                           <apex:column headerValue="Earning" width="5%" >   

                            <apex:inputField value="{!b.Earning_Commission__c}"/>

            </apex:column>   

                          <apex:column headerValue="send Email" width="5%" >   

                            <apex:commandLink action="{!sendemail}" >

                            <apex:param name="SMN"  value="{!b.name}" assignTo="{!SMN}"/>

                            <apex:commandButton value="email to {!b.name}"/>

                </apex:commandLink>

            </apex:column>   

           </apex:dataTable>

              </apex:pageBlock>

       </apex:form>

Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions?

hi,

we have an arabic client and try to generate a document with both english and arabic content. in our browsers, we can see both languages, however the generated PDF only contains the english content, whereas the arabic content is empty.

this happens in both cases, when using arabic text directly (copy paste from a text editor) or when converting the arabic text first to html entities.

is arabic not supported or do we have to instruct the renderer in some special way to support arabic?

<apex:page renderAs="PDF">

<head>
<style type="text/css">
@page {
    size: 21.0cm 29.7cm;
    margin-top: 2.0cm;
    margin-left: 0cm;
    margin-right: 1.5cm;
    margin-bottom: 2cm;
    }
</style>
</head>

<body>

Copy paste:<br/>
غير ذلك(الرجاء التوضيح)

<br/><br/>
HTML Entities:<br/>
&#1594;&#1610;&#1585;&#1584;&#1604;&#1603;

</body>
</apex:page>