[Koha] Corrupted PDF on Batch Export

[Chris Nighswonger]

 On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Fogg, Shawn (DPH)
<Shawn.Fogg at state.ma.us>wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> The contents of the PDF:
>
> %PDF-1.4
> %‚„œ”
> 4 0
> obj<</Type/Font/Subtype/Type1/BaseFont/Courier/Encoding/WinAnsiEncoding>>endobj
> 5 0
> obj<</Type/Font/Subtype/Type1/BaseFont/Times-Italic/Encoding/WinAnsiEncoding>>endobj
> 6 0
> obj<</Type/Font/Subtype/Type1/BaseFont/Times-Roman/Encoding/WinAnsiEncoding>>endobj
> <h1>Software error:</h1>
> <pre>Wide character in compress at /usr/share/perl5/PDF/Reuse.pm line 819
> </pre>
> <p>
> For help, please send mail to the webmaster (<a href="mailto:
> webmaster at koha">webmaster at koha</a>), giving this error message
> and the time and date of the error.
>
> </p>
>
>
> I just figured out what was causing this. When the librarian was adding the
> books she used an accented 'a' in the author's name on one of the books. In
> the CSV download this was showing as: GonzaÃÅlez, Hugo.
>
> I went into the marc record and replaced the accented 'a' with a plain a
> and now the PDF export is fine.
>

Most corrupted label pdfs are due to encoding issues. We are working toward
implementing a browser based label output which will hopefully overcome
these limitations.

Kind Regards,
Chris
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