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I'm curious if there's a plan to support non-english characters in pypdflite, and if so, what is the preferred approach? I'm working on adding this support in a fork I've made, and I would love to get any input from you about how you envision this working.

I believe it's a matter of loading a full unicode font, but also something else?

Any input you have would be hugely valuable. Thanks again for creating such a helpful module!

I've tried forking and outputting text using UTF-16BE that PDFs support but can't seem to get it to render without interpreting the two-byte chars as two different characters. Maybe it is a font issue. Do you have interest in fixing or should I migrate to report lab or something similar?

The pngtest.py references three png files. These files are missing:

bin/example.png
bin/apple_logo.png
bin/background.png

When I try to run the TrueTypeTest, it fails with the error:
"Exception: comic sans ms not a valid font name"

The core problem seems to be the FontLoader.get_ttf() generating the TTF font dictionary with entries like this:

'comic_sans_ms': '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Comic_Sans_MS.ttf'

If I change the test to load the comic_sans_ms font the test passes. But fails on the Arial Bold loading. Again looking at the dictionary, I find:

'arial__italic': '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Arial_Italic.ttf'

meaning the naming process puts two underscores between the font name and the style.

Maybe % should be escaped with %% in pypdflite/pdfobjects/pdfcell.py line 46
is:
self.text = '%s %' % self.text
would work:
self.text = '%s %%' % self.text

Sorry for the "patch" form: newbie with Git

Hi there,
Thanks for pypdflite!
When I try to add png image I get the Exception('Missing Palette'), not sure why. It doesn't happen with any other png file. I edited the original file after the first time I got the exception. It only uses 4 colors and is basically black and white. Any ideas?
Thanks!

Hello
I use your great library to create a bunch of pdfs.
I wnat to include a series of image with a foot text in the center of the page
The proble is, that they have different width, so I cnnot set the cursor precisely.
Is there a generic way to center the images and texts?

Trying to update to the latest code, I get an error when doing a pip install -U pypdflite due to a reference to bin/runexamples.py in the setup.py file on line 9, which reads:

scripts=['bin/runexamples.py'],

In your last commit the runexamples.py file moved to the root of the project, so I believe that line should be:

scripts=['runexamples.py'],

(Thanks for the great work here!)

>>> import pypdflite
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pypdflite/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from pdflite import PDFLite
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pypdflite/pdflite.py", line 4, in <module>
    from .pdfdocument import PDFDocument
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pypdflite/pdfdocument.py", line 13, in <module>
    from pdfobjects.pdfttfonts import PDFTTFont
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pypdflite/pdfobjects/pdfttfonts.py", line 8, in <module>
    TTFONTS = pickle.load(open(os.path.join(FONT_DIR, 'font_dict.p'), 'rb'))
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pypdflite/fonts/font_dict.p'

I installed pypdflib with pip. The font file is missing from MANIFEST, which suggests you need to create a MANIFEST.in and list them there. (Note it should be MANIFEST.in, not MANIFEST.ini.) Further, your setup.py may need to be altered to ensure the font_dict.p is installed in the expected place.