Render tool - unable to display Chinese characters in PDF format

Hi,

I am trying to produce a report in Chinese using the render tool. The PDF output was unable to display Chinese characters properly, but was okay if I select the output in word format. The results window under both PDF and word modes generated warning messages on the font styles. Has anyone run into the same issue?

I am using the latest Alteryx version (2019.3.5). The workflow and output files were attached below.

Thank you.

Wen-Yu

Sample workflow_Chinese Characters.yxzp

Report_Chinese.pdf

Report_Chinese.docx

Reporting

Accepted answers

CharlieS

You're probably not going to like this answer, but I don't think there's much you can do about the direct pdf output besides let Alteryx know and see if they're able to provide and update in the future.

Onto a solution for now, I would take the path of writing the .docx and then executing Visual Basic script (via the Run Command tool in Alteryx) that uses Word and saves the .docx as a .pdf.

Here's a Stack Overflow post with more information:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8807153/vbscript-to-convert-word-doc-to-pdf

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CharlieS

Onto a solution for now, I would take the path of writing the .docx and then executing Visual Basic script (via the Run Command tool in Alteryx) that uses Word and saves the .docx as a .pdf.

Here's a Stack Overflow post with more information:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8807153/vbscript-to-convert-word-doc-to-pdf

Wen-Yu

Thanks @CharlieS, this works. Agreed that this is not perfect and I noted @StephenF has raised this issue to Designer Ideas. Hope Alteryx can fix this in near future.

Karlygash_M

Hello

I am trying to run vbs script, but getting an error "failed to run extertnal program"

jocarvaj

Change the font on the Report Text Tool

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