cyrillic symbols in tables in reportlab.

[hiroz]

Hello! I want to use Cyrillic in tables, but reportlab outputs black squares instead of characters. Here is an example code:

from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import letter
from reportlab.platypus import SimpleDocTemplate, Table, TableStyle
from reportlab.pdfbase import pdfmetrics
from reportlab.pdfbase.ttfonts import TTFont

def table_fonts():
    doc = SimpleDocTemplate("table_fonts.pdf", pagesize=letter)
    story = []
    data = [['ф_{}'.format(x) for x in range(1, 6)],
                ['а', 'ф', 'ф', 'ф', 'ф']
                ]
    tblstyle = TableStyle([('TEXTFONT', (0, 0), (0, 1), 'FreeSans') ]) 
                                   
    tbl = Table(data)
    tbl.setStyle(tblstyle)
    story.append(tbl)
    doc.build(story)
if __name__ == '__main__':
    pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont('FreeSans', 'FreeSans.ttf')) 
    table_fonts()

Python 3.5.3, reportlab 3.5.13

[Larz60+]

see: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/4388...f-library/

[hiroz]

see: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/4388...f-library/

Thanks for your answer! Unfortunately this does not work, the problem is not that there is no suitable font, I think,that there should be some other way to change the font in the table is not through canvas

I added this code to my, the one that led above, now it gives me just a blank sheet

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If I'm going on and fix the font to a normal string that is printed by using canvas, it's all right and the characters are introduced, the problem is that whatever font I set in canvas, SimpleDocTemplate.build won't use it and I don't know why. Here is a sample code that prints the Cyrillic alphabet canvas

from reportlab.pdfgen.canvas import Canvas
from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import A4
from reportlab.pdfbase import pdfmetrics
from reportlab.pdfbase.ttfonts import TTFont


canvas = Canvas("canvas.pdf", pagesize=A4)
pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont('FreeSans', 'FreeSans.ttf'))
canvas.setFont('FreeSans', 32)
canvas.drawString(10, 150, "Сам текст энкодед ин UTF-8")
canvas.drawString(10, 100, "Шревтом FreeSans!")
canvas.showPage()
canvas.save()

That's what I get. Everything works:

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Here is the code from the first table, but with the addition of what I drop above:

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from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
from reportlab.pdfbase import pdfmetrics
from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import letter
from reportlab.platypus import SimpleDocTemplate, Table, TableStyle


def table_fonts():
    doc = SimpleDocTemplate("table_fonts.pdf", pagesize=letter)
    story = []
    data = [['ф_{}'.format(x) for x in range(1, 6)],
            ['а', 'ф', 'ф', 'ф', 'ф']
            ]
    tblstyle = TableStyle([('TEXTFONT', (0, 0), (0, 1), 'URWGothicL-Book1251')])

    tbl = Table(data)
    tbl.setStyle(tblstyle)
    story.append(tbl)
    doc.build(story)

# Create a new canvas for cyrillic.pdf file
c = canvas.Canvas('cyrillic.pdf')

# fname - the font file name without extension
fname = 'a010013l'

# faceName - view a010013l.AFM file as a plain text and look at
# row beginning with 'FontName' word (it's usually the fourth row).
# The word after 'FontName' is the faceName ('URWGothicL-Book' in this case).
faceName = 'URWGothicL-Book'

# Define new Type 1 font
cyrFace = pdfmetrics.EmbeddedType1Face(fname+'.afm', fname+'.pfb')

# Create a new encoding called 'CP1251'
cyrenc = pdfmetrics.Encoding('CP1251')

# Fill in the tuple with Unicode glyphs in accordance with cp1251 (win1251)
# encoding
cp1251=(
 'afii10051', 'afii10052', 'quotesinglbase', 'afii10100', 'quotedblbase',
 'ellipsis', 'dagger', 'daggerdbl', 'Euro', 'perthousand', 'afii10058',
 'guilsinglleft', 'afii10059', 'afii10061', 'afii10060', 'afii10145',
 'afii10099', 'quoteleft', 'quoteright', 'quotedblleft', 'quotedblright',
 'bullet', 'endash', 'emdash', 'tilde', 'trademark', 'afii10106',
 'guilsinglright', 'afii10107', 'afii10109', 'afii10108', 'afii10193',
 'space', 'afii10062', 'afii10110', 'afii10057', 'currency', 'afii10050',
 'brokenbar', 'section', 'afii10023', 'copyright', 'afii10053',
 'guillemotleft', 'logicalnot', 'hyphen', 'registered', 'afii10056',
 'degree', 'plusminus', 'afii10055', 'afii10103', 'afii10098', 'mu1',
 'paragraph', 'periodcentered', 'afii10071', 'afii61352', 'afii10101',
 'guillemotright', 'afii10105', 'afii10054', 'afii10102', 'afii10104',
 'afii10017', 'afii10018', 'afii10019', 'afii10020', 'afii10021',
 'afii10022', 'afii10024', 'afii10025', 'afii10026', 'afii10027',
 'afii10028', 'afii10029', 'afii10030', 'afii10031', 'afii10032',
 'afii10033', 'afii10034', 'afii10035', 'afii10036', 'afii10037',
 'afii10038', 'afii10039', 'afii10040', 'afii10041', 'afii10042',
 'afii10043', 'afii10044', 'afii10045', 'afii10046', 'afii10047',
 'afii10048', 'afii10049', 'afii10065', 'afii10066', 'afii10067',
 'afii10068', 'afii10069', 'afii10070', 'afii10072', 'afii10073',
 'afii10074', 'afii10075', 'afii10076', 'afii10077', 'afii10078',
 'afii10079', 'afii10080', 'afii10081', 'afii10082', 'afii10083',
 'afii10084', 'afii10085', 'afii10086', 'afii10087', 'afii10088',
 'afii10089', 'afii10090', 'afii10091', 'afii10092', 'afii10093',
 'afii10094', 'afii10095', 'afii10096', 'afii10097'
)

# Replace glyphs from code 128 to code 256 with cp1251 values
for i in range(128,256):
    cyrenc[i] = cp1251[i-128]

# Register newly created encoding
pdfmetrics.registerEncoding(cyrenc)

# Register type face
pdfmetrics.registerTypeFace(cyrFace)

# Register the font with adding '1251' to its name
pdfmetrics.registerFont(pdfmetrics.Font(faceName+'1251', faceName, 'CP1251'))

# Use this font and set font size
c.setFont(faceName+'1251', 90)

# hello - 'Hello!' in Ukrainian. If you have Cyrillic keyboard layout and
# cp1251 system encoding just type Cyrillic text instead of its hexadecimal
# equivalent
hello = '\фффф\xf0\xe8\xe2\xb3\xf2!'

# Draw this text at last
table_fonts()

# Stop drawing on the current page
# c.showPage()

# Save pdf file
# c.save()

That's what I get on the way out.

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[hiroz]

It's working! It turned out that under registering the fonts, here is this row:

pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont('FreeSans', 'FreeSans.ttf'))

It picks up the font from the folder from which it is launched. This font wasn't there, so it didn't work. Why does it output Russian strings using DrawString when there is no font in the folder is a good question, but I have no answer. Here is an example of working code:

from reportlab.lib import colors
from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import letter
from reportlab.platypus import SimpleDocTemplate, Table, TableStyle
from reportlab.pdfbase import pdfmetrics
from reportlab.pdfbase.ttfonts import TTFont
def table_fonts():
    doc = SimpleDocTemplate("table_fonts.pdf", pagesize=letter)
    story = []
    data = [['ф_{}'.format(x) for x in range(1, 6)],
    ['фф', 'ф', 'ф', 'ф', 'ф']
    ]
    tblstyle = TableStyle([('FONT', (0, 0), (-1, 1), 'DejaVuSerif', 24)
    ])
    tbl = Table(data)
    tbl.setStyle(tblstyle)
    story.append(tbl)
    doc.build(story)
if __name__ == '__main__':
    pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont('DejaVuSerif', 'DejaVuSerif.ttf'))
    table_fonts()

make sure that the “DejaVuSerif.ttf" is in the folder next to the file. All the blessings

[nilamo]

Thanks for coming back with how you solved it :)

I think there might be something else going on here. From what I've seen other places (such as: https://stackoverflow.com/a/52450839 or http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2013/0...out-fonts/), reportlab has a big list of system directories it looks for fonts, so you shouldn't be required to have it in the same folder as the file you're running.

But, if it works, and you're happy, then it's GoodEnough™.

[bradmalcom]

It's working! It turned out that under registering the fonts, here is this row:

pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont('FreeSans', 'FreeSans.ttf'))

It picks up the font from the folder from which it is launched. This font wasn't there, so it didn't work. Why does it output Russian strings using DrawString when there is no font in the folder is a good question, but I have no answer. Here is an example of working code:

from reportlab.lib import colors
from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import letter
from reportlab.platypus import SimpleDocTemplate, Table, TableStyle
from reportlab.pdfbase import pdfmetrics
from reportlab.pdfbase.ttfonts import TTFont
def table_fonts():
    doc = SimpleDocTemplate("table_fonts.pdf", pagesize=letter)
    story = []
    data = [['ф_{}'.format(x) for x in range(1, 6)],
    ['фф', 'ф', 'ф', 'ф', 'ф']
    ]
    tblstyle = TableStyle([('FONT', (0, 0), (-1, 1), 'DejaVuSerif', 24)
    ])
    tbl = Table(data)
    tbl.setStyle(tblstyle)
    story.append(tbl)
    doc.build(story)
if __name__ == '__main__':
    pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont('DejaVuSerif', 'DejaVuSerif.ttf'))
    table_fonts()

make sure that the “DejaVuSerif.ttf" is in the folder next to the file. All the blessings

GOD BLESS YOU!!!
I tried for a couple of days without any resuts until I found your post.
I was trying to make(and in the end I managed to make)a software that can make a simple packaging label with ean13 barcode, title (translated in 4 languages with google translate), other specs and logo on it.

I had to make around 700 labels very quick because the truck was waiting at the warehouse, the products could be received because they camed without proper labels....so....being a graphic designer with few friends working in the coding area I started to make a python soft/script.

I managed to make the software but because I had bulgarian and maghiar languages, It was giving me black squares instead of letters...

So here YOU come and save my day and the truck drivers day! After staying at the warehouse waiting for my labels to land the products..

Real life story!! :)