Multilingual text
English, Arabic and Japanese in one Chromium document, with the built-in fonts.
One document with English, right-to-left Arabic (dir="rtl") and Japanese, rendered with Chromium's built-in fonts and no registered font.
With Forme, register a TrueType font that covers each script; without one, the document is refused with 422 unsupported_document.
HTML
Save the document as multilingual.html.
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>Order confirmation</title>
<style>
body {
font-family: sans-serif;
font-size: 12pt;
line-height: 1.6;
color: #111827;
}
h1 {
font-size: 20pt;
}
section {
padding: 4mm 0;
border-bottom: 1px solid #e5e7eb;
}
.lang {
font-size: 9pt;
color: #6b7280;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Acme Corp order confirmation</h1>
<section lang="en">
<div class="lang">English</div>
<p>Thank you for your order. Your package will arrive within three business days.</p>
</section>
<section lang="ar" dir="rtl">
<div class="lang">العربية</div>
<p>شكرا لطلبك. سيصل طردك خلال ثلاثة أيام عمل.</p>
</section>
<section lang="ja">
<div class="lang">日本語</div>
<p>ご注文ありがとうございます。お荷物は3営業日以内にお届けします。</p>
</section>
</body>
</html>Request
Each sample reads multilingual.html and saves the PDF as multilingual.pdf. The cURL sample builds the JSON body with jq.
jq -n --rawfile html multilingual.html \
'{ engine: "chromium", html: $html }' \
| curl https://api.eu.revecto.dev/v1/convert \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $REVECTO_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data-binary @- \
--fail-with-body \
-o multilingual.pdfResult
See also: Fonts.