Currently, in Patron Card creator you cannot print unicode firstname and lastname. In my case, I was trying to print chinese name. The generated pdf file is not able to show chinese name.
Can you give us the name you were trying to print? Do you have defined fonts in your koha-conf.xml that support the characters?
Created attachment 82218 [details] patron card screen shot and layout
The patron Chinese name I tried to print : 費卓文 Here is koha-conf.xml, out-of-box setting. Do I need add Chinese font in koha-conf.xml <!-- true type font mapping according to type from $font_types in C4/Creators/Lib.pm --> <ttf> <font type="TR" >/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif.ttf</font> <font type="TB" >/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf</font> <font type="TI" >/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif-Italic.ttf</font> <font type="TBI">/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif-BoldItalic.ttf</font> <font type="C" >/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf</font> <font type="CB" >/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf</font> <font type="CO" >/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-Oblique.ttf</font> <font type="CBO">/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-BoldOblique.ttf</font> <font type="H" >/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf</font> <font type="HO" >/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf</font> <font type="HB" >/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf</font> <font type="HBO">/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf</font> </ttf>
I found a workaround from Koha Taiwan user group. Here is the link to a google doc that provides the solution. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=forums&srcid=MDA0NDYxNTM3NzUwNTcyNzI5NjYBMDkxODU4MDQ3OTk1NjE2NzgxMjEBLWNMdzJoYjRCd0FKATAuMQEBdjI&authuser=0