PDF::Writter for Ruby 1.9 and DB in ISO-8859-1: convert database info from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8; for rigth show in PDF

pdfwriter_extensions.rb

#config\initializers\pdfwriter_extensions.rb 
CONVERTER = Iconv.new( 'ISO-8859-1//IGNORE//TRANSLIT', 'utf-8')
 
module PDF
  class Writer
    # for fixed text (labels in general): It isn't necessary! (Obsolete)
    alias_method :old_text, :text
    def text(textto, options = {})
      #old_text(CONVERTER.iconv(textto), options)
      old_text(textto, options)
    end
    # for info from of data base
    alias_method :old_add_text_wrap, :add_text_wrap
    def add_text_wrap(x, y, width, text, size = nil, justification = :left, angle = 0, test = false)
			old_add_text_wrap(x, y, width, CONVERTER.iconv(text), size, justification, angle, test)
    end
  end
end