Printing Fractions and other unicode things

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   How do I print these unicode superscript characters? 

> http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/superscripts_and_subscripts.html

I can print superscript 1,2 and 3 because they're found in a lower range of codepoints, but I can't print the slash or the rest of the numbers for numerators or denominators.  In debugging, Delphi shows me 5/9ths up until I send the string off to QuickPDF. When it comes through in quick PDF I get nothing, it's not even considered in calculating the width of the text box. 

I tried using embed and non-embeded true type fonts, other than that I don't do anything fancy to fonts in quickPDF. 

(using QuickPDF 8.16)

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fargburger Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 03 Apr 12 Location: Wisconsin Status: Offline Points: 13	Post Options Post Reply Quote fargburger Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Printing Fractions and other unicode things Posted: 02 Oct 12 at 5:22PM
	How do I print these unicode superscript characters? > http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/superscripts_and_subscripts.html I can print superscript 1,2 and 3 because they're found in a lower range of codepoints, but I can't print the slash or the rest of the numbers for numerators or denominators. In debugging, Delphi shows me 5/9ths up until I send the string off to QuickPDF. When it comes through in quick PDF I get nothing, it's not even considered in calculating the width of the text box. I tried using embed and non-embeded true type fonts, other than that I don't do anything fancy to fonts in quickPDF. (using QuickPDF 8.16)

AndrewC Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 08 Dec 10 Location: Geelong, Aust Status: Offline Points: 841	Post Options Post Reply Quote AndrewC Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 05 Oct 12 at 6:29AM
	Not all fonts contain the extra fractions such as 1/6, 5/6. If you only specify characters that exist then everything works as expected in 8.16 and 9.11. To get the sample to work below in 8.16, 9.11 then just change the font to Arial Unicode MS. I have used the following code for testing Note :The string ends with "1/4 1/2 3/4 1/3 2/3 1/8 3/8 5/8 7/8 1/5 2/5 3/5 4/5 1/6 5/6" QP.SetOrigin(1); string str = "12345: HELLO WORLD - ¼½¾ ⅓⅔⅛⅜⅝⅞ ⅕⅖⅗⅘⅙⅚"; int id = QP.AddTrueTypeSubsettedFont("Arial", str, 0); QP.SelectFont(id); QP.SetTextSize(18); QP.DrawText(20, 30, str); QP.SaveToFile("out.pdf"); 1. Using Arial I get the correct output up until 7/8. The other characters don't exist in the font. 2. If I change the font to "Arial Unicode MS" then it generates the full string correctly. Andrew. Edited by AndrewC - 05 Oct 12 at 8:20AM