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black square box while generating pdf (unicode error)

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A weird problem. While generating pdf, inplace of unicodes square black boxes apperars. Dont know if its unicode or font-face error. I even dont know if to use the “font-face and font-family” to generate the unicode into pdf. Anything I am missing ?? Great thanks.

Code snippet # -- coding: utf-8 --

from xhtml2pdf import pisa
from StringIO import StringIO

source = """<html>
            <style>
                @font-face {
                font-family: Mangal;
                src: url("mangal.ttf");
                }

                body {
                font-family: Mangal;
                }
            </style>
            <body>
                This is a test <br/>
                       सरल
            </body>
        </html>"""

# Utility function
def convertHtmlToPdf(source):       
    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()

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Created 10 years ago
Comments:31 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

sunnybearcommented, Jul 21, 2019

It’s very disappoiting to add local fonts for any HTML document to render in non-latin encoding

1reaction

lazareveugenecommented, Sep 6, 2013

yes it’s work but if you put some russian chars, it creates black squares the problem is how we can use non english chars?

#coding: utf-8

from xhtml2pdf import pisa

sourceHtml = "<html>" \
                 "<style>" \
                    "@font-face {" \
                        "font-family: 'DejaVu Sans';" \
                        "src: url('C:/Users/lazarev/PycharmProjects/zmtek/zmtek/collected_static/fonts/DejaVuSans.ttf');" \
                    "}" \
                    "html,body{" \
                        "font-size: 12pt;" \
                        "font-family: 'DejaVu Sans';" \
                    "}" \
              "</style>" \
              "<body><p>А что на счет Русских букв?<p></body>" \
          "</html>"
outputFilename = "test.pdf"

# Utility function
def convertHtmlToPdf(sourceHtml, outputFilename):
    resultFile = open(outputFilename, "w+b")

    # convert HTML to PDF
    pisaStatus = pisa.CreatePDF(
            sourceHtml,                # the HTML to convert
            dest=resultFile)           # file handle to recieve result

    # close output file
    resultFile.close()                 # close output file

    # return True on success and False on errors
    return pisaStatus.err

# Main program
if __name__=="__main__":
    pisa.showLogging()
    convertHtmlToPdf(sourceHtml, outputFilename)

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