is there a way to generate pdf containing non-ascii symbols with pisa from django template?
- by mihailt
Hi.
i'm trying to generate a pdf from template using this snippet:
def write_pdf(template_src, context_dict):
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 http.HttpResponse(result.getvalue(), mimetype='application/pdf')
except Exception('PDF error')
but all non-latin symbols are not showing correctly, the template and view are saved using utf-8 encoding.
i've tried saving view as ANSI and then to user unicode(html,"UTF-8"), but it throws TypeError.
Also i thought that maybe it's because the default fonts somehow do not support utf-8
so according to pisa documentation i tried to set fontface in template body in style section.
that still gave no results.
Does any one have some ideas how to solve this issue?
