cyrillic symbols in tables in reportlab.

[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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