Issue with UTF-8 Hindi charaters

[abhi0476]

input.txt
I used Arial Unicode MS as font
I am getting the characters in PDF but its somewhat distorted.
I am attaching input html, expected PDF File and actual PDF generated by script.
Please help
actualoutput.pdf
expectedoutput.pdf

[danfickle]

Sorry @abhi0476
My understanding is that Hindi needs advanced text shaping support such as different character forms for different positions and horizontal and/or vertical displacement from character to character. Currently this is not possible using PDF-BOX which we use as the PDF output library. See PDF-BOX 3550. I believe recent iText versions with FlyingSaucer may support it (try it out first), but is expensive for many use cases.

Sorry, I couldn't be of more assistance.

[UmeshRajani]

Hi @abhi0476

I have html page which contains hindi and Cyrillic alphabets, I was trying same since many days with different java library but didn't success. itextpdf is there but that is not for free.

Can you please help me, how did you get the hindi script in pdf output, I'm trying it but it generates undefined symbols like '##########################'

Here it seems you are quite successful here for converting doc in hindi to pdf

[harbulot]

Just in case, you might want to check that the font you're using supports the characters you're trying to render (similar to #129 or #53).

[PulkitGupta707]

Any updates on this? I am also facing same glyph issue with Hindi or any other Indian languages @danfickle