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Information about the character is missing. Unicode is not supported by this font. - Error using unicode character in PdfTextElement object.
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To use the Unicode characters in the PDF document you need to enable the Unicode property in PdfFont class. You can enable this by using the WinForms PDF Constructor, as shown in the following code example.
C#
//Font initialization.
System.Drawing.Font tempfont = new System.Drawing.Font("Calibri", 11, FontStyle.Regular);
//Enable unicode to draw unicode characters.
PdfTrueTypeFont currentFont = new PdfTrueTypeFont(tempfont,true);
VB
'Font initialization.
Dim tempfont As New System.Drawing.Font("Calibri", 11, FontStyle.Regular)
'Enable unicode to draw unicode characters.
Dim currentFont As New PdfTrueTypeFont(tempfont, True)
Sample link:
https://www.syncfusion.com/downloads/support/directtrac/general/Sample-1924194779.zip
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