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Reputation: 6304

pisa django displaying chinese characters as black blocks

I am trying to display Chinese characters using reportlab pisa. The generated Chinese words become black blocks. I am using UTF-8 to generate the PDFs

def render_to_pdf(template_src, context_dict):
    """Function to render html template into a pdf file"""
    template = get_template(template_src)
    context = Context(context_dict)
    html  = template.render(context)
    result = StringIO.StringIO()

    pdf = pisa.pisaDocument(StringIO.StringIO(html.encode("UTF-8")), result)
    if not pdf.err:
        return HttpResponse(result.getvalue(), mimetype='application/pdf')
    return HttpResponse('We had some errors<pre>%s</pre>' % escape(html))

Upvotes: 1

Views: 816

Answers (1)

Burhan Khalid
Burhan Khalid

Reputation: 174624

This is a font problem, as whatever font you need to display is not embeddable by reportlabs in the pdf.

Suggest you check the reportlabs ftp server for the font packages you need.

Upvotes: 3

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