> The result: the “ά” is not shown
> > That is interesting, because the accent is important in the Greek
> language
> > and it could change the meaning of a word..“ά” is replaced by a black
> > square. Maybe the reportlab font does not know the Unicode character
> U+03AC?
>
> Sorry, I cannot help you with reportlab, it is a complex software piece.
> In fact, that's why I don't use reportlab and decided to go with pyfpdf :-)
>
(a) I'll try it later.
> > (4) in def listing():
> >
> > line 142:
> > response.title = "web2py sample listing with äö€ß Χανιά"
> >
> > listing.html is ok
> > listing.pdf:
> >
> > “web2py sample listing with äö€ß Χανιά”
> >
> >
> > I think there is a problem. It seems, that HTML-texts with no-latin-1
> > characters (like “äö€ß” or “Χανιά") or HTML-equivants (like “α”) do
> > not work.
>
> Yes, you need to set a unicode font like in get_me_a_unicode_pyfpdf()
> to get non-latin1 support.
>
> *It's a bit tricky, you could do the following:*
>
> # add the font to the pdf document:
> pdf.add_font('DejaVu', '', os.path.join(request.folder, "private",
> "font", 'DejaVuSans.ttf'), uni=True)
>
> # create the basic html parser:
> h2p = HTML2FPDF(pdf, image_map)
>
> # update the supported font list:
> h2p.font_list = list(h2p.font_list) + ['DejaVu']
>
> # convert basic html to pdf:
> h2p.feed(text)
>
> Then, in your html text, you have to specify the font tag:
> <font face="DejaVu"> .... </font>
>
> (b) I have written a new function:
from reportlab.platypus import *
from reportlab.lib.styles import getSampleStyleSheet
from reportlab.rl_config import defaultPageSize
from reportlab.lib.units import inch, mm
from reportlab.lib.enums import TA_LEFT, TA_RIGHT, TA_CENTER, TA_JUSTIFY
from reportlab.lib import colors
from uuid import uuid4
from cgi import escape
import os
# maybe not all imports are necessary
def report4():
from gluon.contrib.pyfpdf import FPDF, HTMLMixin
from gluon.contrib.pyfpdf.html import HTML2FPDF
text = u"<font face='DejaVu'>abc<br/>äöü</font>"
*text2 = u"€" # does not work
*
* text3 = u"Χανιά" # does'n work*
pdf=FPDF()
pdf.add_font('DejaVu', '', os.path.join(request.folder, "private",
"font", 'DejaVuSans.ttf'), uni=True)
pdf.set_font('DejaVu','',12)
# create the basic html parser:
*# h2p = HTML2FPDF(pdf, image_map)** # what is image map?*
h2p = HTML2FPDF(pdf)
h2p.font_list = list(h2p.font_list) + ['DejaVu']
pdf.add_page()
h2p.feed(text)
response.headers['Content-Type']='application/pdf'
return pdf.output(dest='S')
Result: as expected, with or without <face... >
*But: again it's only possible to use Latin-1 characters.* What is wrong?
(c) I think there is another problem:
*The file "DejaVuSans.pkl" contains an absolute file path*, e.g.
line 4:
S*'D:\\dropbox\\web2py\\applications\\fpdf17utest\\*
private\\font\\DejaVuSans.ttf'
*I have not tried it, but I think, therefore this application will not be
portable*.
> (6) Some typos:
> >
> > line 90:
> >
> > "example to generate a pdf based on basic html (use http:/.../report.pdf
> > download the pdf)"
> >
> >
> > line 218:
> >
> > "example to generate an invoice based on a generic pdf template"
> >
>
> Thanks, could you send me the final file fixed, or fill an issue?
> (some text are truncated in the email)
>
> ok
Kind regards, Martin
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