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I want to use the pdf as a invoicing idea but I’m having some issues with special characters.
For the £ sign I’m getting £ in my document. Is there a reason that the  is showing up and how can I stop that from appearing?
Thanks.
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It’s probably a character encoding mismatch.
Ryan Thrash, MODX Co-Founder
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I’ve gotten that in some cases, and it appears to be an extraneous normally non-displaying formatting character in the original. It’s only happened when a client using Windows edits/creates a document. Making sure my browser matches the site’s character set, I just re-enter the part (usually at the beginning of a paragraph) and it goes away. I suspect somebody is doing copy/paste from Word or something, in spite of repeatedly being told not to do that.
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Hi Susan, I’m typing in to the document body and saving and then downloading the PDF. As I said, I type £ and it comes out with that special character in front. I’m guessing that if I add  to be stripped won’t help as it appears to be happening during the PDF creation process.
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I don’t have any knowledge of special character encoding either
I just thought it would be a simple fix like escaping the £ sign in the text area of the document for it to display in the PDF lol. I tried £ but that was printed in the PDF as £ rather than £. I will see what I can find on Google.
I just tried the $ symbol and this displays properly...
Ok now this is nice
but the content is not parsed
how can I parse the content so that snippets are parsed and any other tag before its send to the pdf?
I tryed: $modx->parseDocumentSource but that did not parse any snippet calls I had, does anyone has any idea?
I have one one page a ditto call I need that page to be made into a pdf but now it generates the pae with the call instead of the parsed content.
Dimmy
don’t know, if this can work, but you can try:
$fields = 'id,longtitle,description';
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$chapter = $page['longtitle'];
$title = $page['description'];
//$content = str_replace($remove, '', $page['content']);
$url = $modx->makeUrl($page['id'], '', '', 'full');
$content = file_get_contents($url);
the template should be without head and so on, of course
. I’ve only just installed it and get it working but my pages always show the html code. I get a lot of <p> and <td references. Have I don’t something wrong? Is there a way to format the pdf as my webpage?
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