Customize Invoice PDF Template

Question

In one of our over seas stores, the Invoice PDF Printout is printing what looks like html encoded chars (á), We need to correct this, I have reviewed the following links, but none of it seems to match up or appears to be out of date, especially the first link which looks like the easiest solution.

References:

1. http://www.magentocommerce.com/knowledge-base/entry/custom-pdf-templates/
2. http://www.xpcdesign.com/2008/12/edit-the-magento-invoice-pdf-templates/ (2008)
3. http://inchoo.net/ecommerce/magento/how-to-add-custom-attribute-to-magentos-pdf-invoice/ (2011)
4. http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/5_-_modules_and_development/orders/editing_an_invoice_pdf

Answer 1

It was an encoding issue, I had to change UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1