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I just had a closer look at the module... Part of the problem is that PDF::EasyPDF specifies the encoding for its 14 Adobe Base Fonts (all it supports) as "MacRomanEncoding" — which is kind of unfortunate, as this encoding is rather different from ISO-8859-1, which Perl defaults to in most cases (for example, "é" is 0x8E in Mac Roman, while it's 0xE9 in ISO-Latin-1 and CP1252). In other words, even if you had successfully solved the UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 conversion issue, it still wouldn't work...

But you can get it working with two small changes to EasyPDF.pm (tested, i.e. works for me):

Replace all 14 occurrences of "/MacRomanEncoding" with "/WinAnsiEncoding" (case is important). Windows ANSI encoding (CP1252) is roughly the equivalent of ISO-8859-1/ISO-8859-15 (one of the differences is that the Euro symbol is in a different position (0xA4 in ISO-8859-15, 0x80 in CP1252).

Change this line

 open (EASYPDF,">$self->{file}") or die ...
[download]

to read

 open (EASYPDF, ">:encoding(cp1252)", $self->{file}) or die ...
[download]

(and don't forget to put use utf8; in your script)

Update: alternatively, you could leave PDF::EasyPDF's /MacRomanEncoding declarations in place, and have Perl convert to that encoding directly (">:encoding(MacRoman)"), which would work, too (except for the Euro symbol)

In reply to Re^3: ( PDF::EasyPDF ) encoding problem by almut
in thread ( PDF::EasyPDF ) encoding problem by lepetitalbert

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