When I export a chart to pdf and one of the chart boxes contains bullet point characters that came from a MS Word document, then the whole program shuts down without even an exception to catch. Code is:

var pdf = new PdfExporter();

try
{
pdf.Export(FlowChart, dlg.FileName);
}

catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show(this, "Failed to export file, error is: " + ex.Message, "Error Message",
MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error);
}

I can't paste in the offending text, but a screenshot is attached
David L

Interestingly it seems to be a different type of bullet point that is the problem.  Word document attached containing the problem character.  Paste this text into a ShapeNode and export as pdf. There is a long pause and the program shuts down.

DavidL

Hi,

Try setting the default exporter encoding to Unicode and the bullet characters should export without errors. You will need to also set the AutoDetectEncoding flag to false:

PdfExporter pdfExp = new PdfExporter();
pdfExp.AutoDetectEncoding = false;
pdfExp.DefaultEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode;
pdfExp.Export(diagramView1.Diagram, saveFileDialog.FileName); 

Regards,
Lyubo

Hi,

It seems Edge has indeed some trouble displaying this text with Unicode encoding. Other pdf viewers under the same system don't seem to have that problem. We will investigate why this happens, in the mean time you can try replacing the square bullet with a regular one before export and reverting to the default encoding settings:

foreach (DiagramNode node in diagram1.Nodes)
{
    if (!(node is ShapeNode))
        continue;
    var snode = node as ShapeNode;
    if (snode.Text.Contains("\u25AA"))
        snode.Text = snode.Text.Replace('\u25AA', '\u2022');
} 

About the forum notifications, it seems they broke with a update of our hoster's Perl version some time ago, so that feature doesn't work at the moment.

Regards,
Lyubo