Is there a way to generate pdf containing non-ascii symbols with pisa from django template?

Question

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          


        

Answer 1

You need to modify your django template. Add a new font face in the stylesheet that will link to a font file with characters used in your document. And that font file must be accessible from your server (under Ubuntu you can find files with fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ directory). For example:

@font-face {
  font-family: DejaMono; 
  src: url(font/DejaVuSansMono.ttf);
}

Then if you have next HTML code:

Some non-latin characters

you can display that text in DejaMono font with this CSS rule:

div { font-family: DejaMono; }

This works for me when I generate PDF documents with cyrillic characters.