Hi,

I am doing default PDF export functionality of Kendo Grid. But exported PDF file has extra characters in meta data. That results weird title of the PDF in Chrome browser. I have attached screen shot of the exported pdf and also a meta data of the file.  

I found few solutions (https://www.telerik.com/forums/saving-grids-or-charts-as-pdf-and-getting-strange-characters-in-the-metadata) that mentioned that I need to have <meta Charset='UTF-8'> in my code, where grid has been initialized. But I have set UTF-8 charset only in my entire code, still facing same issue.

I have few questions:

1) Which charset value is getting used to export the grid in PDF? (i) <meta Charset='UTF-8'> written in my code or (ii) default export functionality has its own charset value

2)  I am using Telerik.UI.for.AspNet.Core 2020.3.1021 version for kendo UI. Which specific library is being used for PDF generation in Telerik.UI.for.AspNet.Core  2020.3.1021 ? 

3) Is there anything else to try to resolve this issue?

Hi,

I'm doing a quite simple implementation of saveAsPdf() for a grid. The actual PDF is fine, but the MetaData is a problem.

The PDF MetaData attributes for title, subject, keywords, author, creator and producer all contain strange/escape characters. 

Here is an example of what I get every time.

Title:          þÿ�M�o�d�e�l� �2�0�2�3
Subject:        þÿ
Keywords:       Ã¾Ã¿
Author:         Ã¾Ã¿
Creator:        þÿ�K�e�n�d�o� �U�I� �P�D�F� �G�e�n�e�r�a�t�o�r
Producer:       Ã¾Ã¿�K�e�n�d�o� �U�I� �P�D�F� �G�e�n�e�r�a�t�o�r

The only one of these attributes I'm actually setting is the Title. The rest are just whatever is deemed a default value (I assume).

This happens when I produce the PDF from Chrome, Firefox or Edge.

Here's an example of the PDF Options I am using.

{
    "title": "Model 2023",
    "fileName": "Model2023.pdf",
    "allPages": false,
    "avoidLinks": true,
    "paperSize": "A4",
    "margin": {
        "left": "1cm",
        "top": "1cm",
        "right": "1cm",
        "bottom": "1cm"
    },
    "scale": 0.4,
    "landscape": true,
    "multiPage": true,
    "repeatHeaders": true
}

I have tried multiPage as true and false, which made no difference. I have included pako_deflate. I thought it might be a font issue, but it's MetaData. Not what's actually output on the PDF.

To make it even more confusing for me, your demo works perfectly.  :)

FYI: Using version: 2022.3.913

If you can offer any ideas, I'd be grateful.

Thanks
John

Hello,

kendo grid can't support unicode text in pdf sample

thank you