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I have unicode used in my html page, which is displaying correctly in the html page. But while converting it into html using xhtml2pdf, it generating black, solid square boxes in the unicodes. Is there some setting for unicode other than UTF-8 setting. I dont think its unicode problem.
# convert HTML to PDF
pisaStatus = pisa.CreatePDF(
StringIO(sourceHtml.encode('utf-8')),
dest=resultFile)
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from xhtml2pdf import pisa
from StringIO import StringIO
source = """<html>
<style>
@font-face {
font-family: Preeti;
src: url("preeti.ttf");
}
body {
font-family: Preeti;
}
</style>
<body>
This is a test <br/>
सरल
</body>
</html>"""
# Utility function
def convertHtmlToPdf(source):
# open output file for writing (truncated binary)
pdf = StringIO()
pisaStatus = pisa.CreatePDF(StringIO(source.encode('utf-8')), pdf)
# return True on success and False on errors
print "Success: ", pisaStatus.err
return pdf
# Main program
if __name__=="__main__":
print pisa.showLogging()
pdf = convertHtmlToPdf(source)
fd = open("test.pdf", "w+b")
fd.write(pdf.getvalue())
fd.close()
Do I even Need to include the font-face ??
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Its partially solved. Providing the absolute path to the font i.e.
<style>
@font-face {
font-family: Preeti;
src: url("c:/static/fonts/preeti.ttf");
}
body {
font-family: Preeti;
}
</style>
Now another problem has raised. I have mixed texts, partially in unicode and partially in normal Font(I think I should say it normal fonts :D), since fonts have been overridden, now the normal Fonts are coming in rectangular boxes. In this case a empty box.
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A little late answer but I think that it is important to know why relative paths do not work in fontface for xhtml2pdf:
The CreatePDF function (which is the same with the pisaDocument method as can be seen in https://github.com/chrisglass/xhtml2pdf/blob/master/xhtml2pdf/pisa.py) has a path named parameter. Now, if you don't set this parameter and use a relative path then it will try to find your fonts under a folder named __dummy__ as can be seen on the file https://github.com/chrisglass/xhtml2pdf/blob/master/xhtml2pdf/context.py (search for dummy).
So, that's why your .ttf files only work when you use absolute paths.
To resolve this, you can either:
__dummy__ folder and put your .ttf files there, orpath named parameter of CreatePDF
For example, in my case, I am creating PDFs through django, so I passed path='.' and put my .ttf in the same folder as my manage.py -- everything is working fine. Of a better solution would be to define SETTINGS.PROJECT_PATH and use that.
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