How to change fonts in generated PDFs to cope with german Umlauts - how to change PDF Layouts

[heisenbol]

My problem is basically that in the generated PDFs, german umlauts for the Courier font are broken (displayed for example as " ). As I am on a hosted server, I can not install or replace the Courier font.

My question: how would I change the Courier font to something else? I see the "PDF-Layout" options, but could not find any documentation on how to add a new one or change an existing one.

I tried to play with the motionFixedFont setting in models/db/Motion.php, with no apparent result (could be a caching issue though).

I am on the latest software version of antragsgruen. I am not sure whether I use the LaTeX or PHP based rendering (I do have lualatex and pdfunite set in my settings, but do not know if these are actually used).

[CatoTH]

Hi,
could you maybe send me such a sample pdf to [email protected]?
The fonts should actually come with the distribution, and are located in the directory vendor/tecnickcom/tcpdf/fonts/. At least if PHP based rendering is used. Which one is used depends on the template chosen at the motion type.

[heisenbol]

thanks for the response. I'll send you a sample right away to your private address.
I do see various php and .z files in the folder you are mentioning. But I still do not know which generation method is used (PHP or latex). The PDF files have as "producer" property "TCPDF 6.4.4".

[heisenbol]

is there anyone that can confirm this?