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Jurij Plaskan
Jurij Plaskan

Reputation: 31

ReportLab PDF Correctly encodes only some latin-2 characters

I am trying to write a python program for pdf invoice creation. The text lines i write into a newly generated PDF are in Slovene with characters like č, š, ž, etc. which are found in the latin-2 alphabet.

pdf = canvas.Canvas(...)
pdf.setFont("Helvetica", 3)
for line in receipt_lines:
    textobject.textLine(line.rstrip())

pdf.drawText(textobject)

The above code correctly generates a pdf, however some of the latin-2 characters (mainly 'č') are instead replaced by black squares. For example, the line: "Račun je bil uspešno nastisnjen" will apear as "Ra~un je bil uspešno natisnjen" where ~ is indicative of a plain black box in the final pdf.

I understand that the encoding with the ReportLab library is a bit finnicky, however I do not understand why only some of the latin-2 special characters are written into the pdf incorrectly.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 37

Answers (1)

Jurij Plaskan
Jurij Plaskan

Reputation: 31

I have now figured out the problem. If you wish to generate PDF's with Latin-2 characters, download a font (.ttf or any other file format supported by ReportLab) which includes Latin-2 characters, as ReportLab doesn't offer any by default.

Upvotes: 2

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