How to have French special character in a PDF?

Question

I met some problems when trying to make a PDF in French, for my project. It doesn't show special character like é , ò, ê.... (their code are for instance ê or ó)
So, thanks to this link I tried to include my own font but it gives this kind of messages:

PDF error: This font cannot be embedded in the PDF document. If you would like to
use it anyway, you must pass Zend_Pdf_Font::EMBED_SUPPRESS_EMBED_EXCEPTION in the
$options parameter of the font constructor

Do you have any idea to solve it? Thanks.

Answer 1

You can use default font. Just use encoding UTF-8 every time you draw a text.

$pdf = new Zend_Pdf();
$page = new Zend_Pdf_Page(Zend_Pdf_Page::SIZE_A4);
$page->drawText("Bonjour Hélène!", 705, 550,'UTF-8');