Writing Chinese characters in a PDF Response in c#

Question

I'm having problems with generating a PDF with Chinese chars in it. I download the html as a string from "pageurl" and I use NRECO.Pdfgenerator to generate bytes for pdf from it.

On the pdf, I can see latin characters correctly but not chinese ones. I assume it's an encoding problem but i cannot seem to understand where the mistake is. Heres the code i'm using:

    WebClient client = new WebClient();
    string htmlstring = client.DownloadString(PageUrl);

    //Nreco
    HtmlToPdfConverter converter = new HtmlToPdfConverter();

    converter.CustomWkHtmlArgs = "--encoding UTF-8";
    converter.GeneratePdf(htmlstring);

    byte[] result = converter.GeneratePdf(htmlstring);

    Response.Clear();
    Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
    Response.BinaryWrite(result);
    Response.Flush();

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

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you can use itextPdf! Look at this posts: How to display chinese characters in pdf file created with iTextSharp

http://itextpdf.com/examples/iia.php?id=201

edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

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answered Oct 28 '15 at 10:34

Paolo Zaia

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 28 '15 at 10:44

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You can use pdfclown which is free and can write almost all languages in pdf

You can download it here

You can use any type of font which supports unicode characters

answered Oct 28 '15 at 10:44

Mohd Mujtaba Faraaz

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Writing Chinese characters in a PDF Response in c#

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