php - Using chinese characters in FDPI

Solution:

The Old Way:

I found the solution buried in a github repo from DCgithub21 which you can extend and modify like below.

After extending the the classes properly, you can use Chinese characters inside Fpdi

$pdf = new ChineseFpdi();
$template = public_path('template.pdf');
$pdf->setSourceFile($template);

$pdf->AddGBFont('arial');
$pdf->SetFont('arial', '', 9);

$pdf->Write(2, iconv("utf-8", "gbk", "????†™??­?–‡"));
$pdf->Write(2, iconv("utf-8", "gbk", "Can write Latin"));
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In official repo:

class Fpdi extends FpdfTpl {}
class FpdfTpl extends \FPDF {}
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What you need to do is create a bridge class called PdfChinese, so your outlook will be:

class Fpdi extends FpdfTpl {}
class FpdfTpl extends PDFChinese {}
class PdfChinese extends FPDF {}
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The Right Way:

Apparently tFPDF was a better way to do it. Reference: https://www.setasign.com/products/fpdi/demos/tfpdf-demo/

define("_SYSTEM_TTFONTS", public_path('fonts/'));

$pdf = new \setasign\Fpdi\Tfpdf\Fpdi();
$template = public_path('template.pdf');
$pdf->setSourceFile($template);

$pdf->AddFont('Code200365k','','Code200365k.ttf', true);
$pdf->SetFont('Code200365k','',42);

$pdf->Write(2, "????†™??­?–‡");
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