Pdf generation in arabic language is printing garbage values - pdf

Question

I am using component one library to generate pdf document and save in phone storage. Here is my code to print just one line.
public ViewStatementDetails()
{
this.InitializeComponent();
this.navigationHelper = new NavigationHelper(this);
this.navigationHelper.LoadState += this.NavigationHelper_LoadState;
this.navigationHelper.SaveState += this.NavigationHelper_SaveState;
pdf = new C1PdfDocument(PaperKind.Letter);
pdf.Clear();
}
private void Print_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
LoadingProgress.Visibility = Windows.UI.Xaml.Visibility.Visible;
PDFTest_Loaded();
}
async void PDFTest_Loaded()
{
try
{
WriteableBitmap writeableBmp = await initializeImage();
pdf = new C1PdfDocument(PaperKind.Letter);
CreateDocumentText(pdf);
StorageFile Assets = await Windows.Storage.ApplicationData.Current.LocalFolder.CreateFileAsync("Salik Statement.pdf", CreationCollisionOption.GenerateUniqueName);
PdfUtils.Save(pdf, Assets);
LoadingProgress.Visibility = Visibility.Collapsed;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Debug.WriteLine(ex.ToString());
Debugger.Break();
LoadingProgress.Visibility = Visibility.Collapsed;
}
}
async void CreateDocumentText(C1PdfDocument pdf)
{
try
{
pdf.Landscape = false;
// measure and show some text
var text = App.GetResource("RoadAndSafetyheading")
var font = new Font("Segoe UI Light", 36, PdfFontStyle.Bold);
var fmt = new StringFormat();
fmt.Alignment = HorizontalAlignment.Center;
// measure it
var sz = pdf.MeasureString(text, font, 72 * 3, fmt);
var rc = new Rect(0, 0, pdf.PageRectangle.Width, sz.Height);
rc = PdfUtils.Offset(rc, 0, 0);
// draw the text
pdf.DrawString(text, font, Colors.Orange, rc, fmt);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
}
}
The above code is working perfect but my application supports two languages, English and Arabic. And when I am in arabic mode and generate same pdf it prints garbage values in pdf file. attaching image of printed characters.

Answer 1

Use of Arabic characters would require to use Unicode symbols and embed the Unicode font into PDF (as PDF format does not provide support for Unicode using its built-in fonts). If you are using ComponentOne then try to set .EmbedTrueTypeFonts = true (see details here)