| Subject: | Hyphen is not displaying in PDF file after it is generated using HTML-HTMLDoc |
Once PDF file is generated using HTML-HTMLDoc , Hyphen (-) is not displaying properly in PDF. Instead of getting ABC-1234 we are getting ABC−1234
There are differences between these two hyphens. please find the code and the output of the pdf file used. Kindly fix the issue so that you can help many people around the world who are using this module :)
Test Scenarios
Please copy the hyphen from pdf and paste it in Word document.
Manually type the hyphen in the Word document . There are differences between both.
perl version : 5.8
Module Version : 0.08
Operating system used : sunos 5.8
Code used
#!/usr/bin/perl
use HTML::HTMLDoc;
my $hd = new HTML::HTMLDoc('mode'=>'file', 'tmpdir'=>'/tmp');
$hd->set_page_size('letter'); # set page size
$hd->set_bodyfont('Times'); # set font
$hd->set_left_margin(6, 'mm'); # set margin
$hd->set_fontsize(20);
$hd->set_permissions('no-modify');
$hd->set_charset('iso-8859-15');
$hd->title();
$hd->set_header('.', '.', 'l');
$hd->set_footer('.', '.', '/');
$hd->set_html_content(qq~<html><body><p> Hyphen not working fine in PDF ABC-1234
</p></body></html>~); # contents to convert
my $pdf = $hd->generate_pdf();
$pdf->to_string();
$pdf->to_file('SampleDocu_8.pdf');
| Subject: | SampleDocu_8.pdf |
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