I want to export arabic characters to pdf using xhtml2pdf, cause I'm using it in my django app.
I know that they made an update saying that they fixed it, but it didn't work with me, I used a custom font but still not working.
So please anyone knows the right encryption for this or anyway around it, help me.
invoice.html :
{% load static %}
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<head>
<title>{{title}}</title>
<style type="text/css">
@font-face {
font-family: Amiri, "Amiri Font";
src: url("{% static 'font/Amiri-Italic.ttf'%}");
}
body {
font-weight: 200;
font-size: 14px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body><pdf:language name="arabic"/>
<div class='wrapper'>
<div class='header'>
<p class='title'>Invoice # {{ invoice_ID }} </p>
</div>
<div>
<div class='details'>
<pdf:language name="arabic"/>
<p> تجربة</p>
customername : {{customer_name}} <br><hr>
<hr class='hrItem' />
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
utils.py :
from io import BytesIO
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.template.loader import get_template
from xhtml2pdf import pisa
def render_to_pdf(template_src, context_dict={}):
template = get_template(template_src)
html = template.render(context_dict)
result = BytesIO()
pdf = pisa.pisaDocument(BytesIO(html.encode("UTF-8")), result)
if not pdf.err:
return HttpResponse(result.getvalue(), content_type='application/pdf')
return None
views.py :
from django.shortcuts import render, redirect, HttpResponse
import pandas as pd
from .models import SaleInvoice, TransferWays, User, InstallingCities
from siteManagment.models import MarketersManagment, WareHouses
from .utils import render_to_pdf
from django.core.validators import ValidationError
def renderPDF(request):
if request.GET:
invoice_ID = request.GET.get('invoice_ID')
if invoice_ID:
result = SaleInvoice.objects.all().filter(invoice_ID=invoice_ID).values()
df = pd.DataFrame(result)
#theUser = User.objects.all().filter(id=(df['User_id'])).values('username')
#df['total'].values
data = {
"title" : ' الفاتورة رقم {}'.format(invoice_ID),
"invoice_ID" : invoice_ID,
"customer_name" : df['customer_name'],
}
pdf = render_to_pdf('invoice.html', data)
return HttpResponse(pdf, content_type='application/pdf')
else:
raise ValidationError
else:
return redirect('admin/')
I solved it, the docs have nothing wrong actually, the problem was in the static.. because when you use {% static 'whatever' %} it's going to search the static files but for some reason it didn't work I think the problem is from django itself, maybe you can't summon static from a pdf file. anywho this is my new invoice.html ( I've put the whole path to the font ):