Problem with Malayalam Font Glyphs

[RajKumar N R]

Hi,

I am trying to generate a PDF that contains text in Malayalam font. Everything is working fine but the text is not displaying correctly.

The font named Noto Sans Malayalam is used.

The input text is കോട്ടയം.

The following image shows the output from Reportlab.

Using Google Docs, I have exported a PDF with the same content and it is displaying correctly.

The following image shows the output from Google Docs:

While checking the fonts embedded in the PDF, both reportlab and Google embedded the fonts in different ways.

In reportlab, the font is embedded as WinAnsi format.

 

But in Google Docs, it is embedded as Identity-H

How to make this work correctly using reportlab?

Here is the source code:-

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- 

 from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas 

 from reportlab.pdfbase import pdfmetrics

 from reportlab.pdfbase.ttfonts import TTFont  

import reportlab.rl_config 

reportlab.rl_config.warnOnMissingFontGlyphs = 1 pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont('Malayalam', '/home/impressads/projects/reportlabtest/NotoSansMalayalam-Regular.ttf')) 

 c = canvas.Canvas("reportlab-malayalam.pdf") c.setFont("Malayalam", 14) c.setAuthor("raj")
c.setTitle("Reportlab Malayalam") 

c.drawString(10,800, u"കോട്ടയം".encode('utf-8')) 

 c.save()

[Sreejith Das]

Hi,

I am facing the same problem. Is there a solution available as on date?

Sreejith P Das

[Neelesh Nikam]

I am facing same font issue for Marathi language. Plz help

[Sreejith Das]

No solution known to me as of now. I have posted in stack overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76788180/reportlab-is-not-properly-rendering-indian-text-malayalam

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