Can DominoPDF support different character sets?

DominoPDF can convert different character sets, such as Simplified Chinese or Arabic, however there are some requirements as follows.

– DominoPDF will determine the character set from the CodePage specified in the HTML attribute. For example;

Simplified Chinese = <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=gb2312″>

Arabic = <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=windows-1256″>

– DominoPDF requires a multi-byte font to be installed on the same machine as the DominoPDF software. We recommend the Bitsream Cyberbit font which is available for free download.

– DominoPDF (may) require an instruction to use the multi-byte font. For example;