Can I print Chinese words to VPE Doc?

[tinhle]

Hi,

I want to print the Chinese words to VPE Docs, Can I?

If can, please show me the way?

Tony
tinhleduc@gmail.com

[IDEAL Software Support]

This is not possible with VPE in the current version, because VPE does not (yet) support Unicode. One of our next major tasks is to provide Unicode support, but this will require a huge amount of work and time.

The major problem is that we support different platforms and rendered text layout needs to be 100% identical on all supported platforms. So we need a much more generic solution than just using the Microsoft Uniscribe API.

We expect to have Unicode support in the mid of 2011.

[nc1264]

You can print Simple Chinese with VPE 2.6 but there are certain conditions to it. I'm not sure if this still works in later versions including the new version 6.

You can't use Unicode as it this is not supported. However, it can be done with RTF. The type of RTF, however, is tricky. If the text contains Unicode references in RTF (\uxxxxx) characters all will be shown as question marks. You also need to use a specific Windows font: SimSun

A text like this will work:
{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033\deflangfe1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fprq2\fcharset134 SimSun;}}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\lang3081\f0\fs20\'b7\'c0\'be\'b2\'b5\'e7\'c9\'e8\'b1\'b8}

[IDEAL Software Support]

I think you mean v3.60. This does only work in v3.x. It works because the RTF is using DBCS. Since v4.0 we are using our own font rendering system in order to guarantee identical layouts on all supported platforms.

In v3.x we just called the Windows API and it understands the DBCS so things like your example do work. You can switch VPE into v3.x mode by calling:

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VPE.EngineRenderMode = VENGINE_RENDER_MODE_VER3

Then the above sample should also work with current versions of VPE. However, we do not guarantee that.

[nc1264]

I made a mistake. It's indeed not version 2.6. I use version 3.1 for development and 3.5 on the server.

[ADJ68]

Hi, We are currently investigating the need to print Chinese characters and have noted the above thread.

Several years on from these, please can you confirm if the Unicode enabled version of VPE is now available?

Thanks in advance.

[IDEAL Software Support]

As already explained in several posts of this forum. it is not available and we have currently no timeframe when - or if - a unicode enabled version will be created.