[reportlab-users] czech characters

[Ábrahám Péter]

Milos Prudek írta:

> what is the proper way to write Czech accented characters?
>
> canvas,setfont( "Helvetica", 12 )
> canvas.writestring( X, Y, "ěščřžýáíáé" )

Hi,

I'm afraid this isn't so simple at the first sight. Look at my way to 
create special Hungarian characters. The Czech ones must be similar. 
More details can be found in the  "Chapter 3 Fonts and encoding" section 
of ReportLab's User Guide.

By
Peter

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I've downloaded free Type1 iso-8859-2 coded fonts, (.afm, .pbf) and 
copied these ones in a separate direcory called "font". 
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import os
import string

from reportlab.pdfbase import pdfmetrics

class PDF_magyar:
    def __init__(self):
        own_code = pdfmetrics.Encoding("iso_8859-2", "WinAnsiEncoding")
        own_code[189] = "hungarumlaut"
        own_code[213] = "Ohungarumlaut"
        own_code[219] = "Uhungarumlaut"
        own_code[245] = "ohungarumlaut"
        own_code[251] = "uhungarumlaut"
        pdfmetrics.registerEncoding(own_code)

        hun_font = [("ne21003l", "NimbusRomNo9LEE-Regu"), ("ne21004l", 
"NimbusRomNo9LEE-Medi"), ("ne21023l", "NimbusRomNo9LEE-ReguItal"), 
("ne21024l", "NimbusRomNo9LEE-MediItal")]
        for i in hun_font:
            afmFile = os.getcwd() + os.sep + "font" + os.sep + str(i[0]) 
+ ".afm"
            pfbFile = os.getcwd() + os.sep + "font" + os.sep + str(i[0]) 
+ ".pfb"
            justFace = pdfmetrics.EmbeddedType1Face(afmFile, pfbFile)
            pdfmetrics.registerTypeFace(justFace)
            justFont = pdfmetrics.Font(str(i[1]), str(i[1]), "iso_8859-2")
            pdfmetrics.registerFont(justFont)

        self.h_font_normal = "NimbusRomNo9LEE-Regu"
        self.h_font_bold = "NimbusRomNo9LEE-Medi"
        self.h_font_italic = "NimbusRomNo9LEE-ReguItal"
        self.h_font_bold_italic = "NimbusRomNo9LEE-MediItal"


PDF_alap = PDF_magyar()
...
canvas.setFont(PDF_alap.h_font_normal, 12)
...