Pdf insert_text with cyrilic encoding.

[vb64]

Hi there.

I ran the slightly modified example code from the documentation (How to Use Non-Standard Encoding) on two platforms.

• Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.14393]
• Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS

import fitz

assert 'PyMuPDF 1.23.3:' in fitz.__doc__
doc=fitz.open()
page = doc.new_page()
shape = page.new_shape()
shape.insert_text((50,70), "Hello world!", fontname="HELV", encoding=fitz.TEXT_ENCODING_CYRILLIC)
shape.insert_text((50,90), "Привет world!", fontname="HELV", encoding=fitz.TEXT_ENCODING_CYRILLIC)
shape.insert_text((50,110), "Привет мир!", fontname="HELV", encoding=fitz.TEXT_ENCODING_CYRILLIC)
shape.commit()
doc.save("t.pdf")

And I got the same results.

How can I get the correct text in Cyrillic in PDF?

[JorjMcKie]

I would avoid using the built-in Base-14 fonts. Try to use the file-based versions that also come with (Py-) MuPDF, which contain lots more of supported characters - beyond the 255 Unicode limits of Base-14.

Works like so:

import fitz

assert 'PyMuPDF 1.23.3:' in fitz.__doc__
font = fitz.Font("helv")  # looks exactly equal to its Base-14 brother
doc=fitz.open()
page = doc.new_page()
page.insert_font(fontname="myhelv", fontbuffer=font.buffer)
shape = page.new_shape()
shape.insert_text((50,70), "Hello world!", fontname="myhelv")
shape.insert_text((50,90), "Привет world!", fontname="myhelv")
shape.insert_text((50,110), "Привет мир!", fontname="myhelv")
shape.commit()
doc.save("t.pdf")

Result:

[JorjMcKie]

The only thing to watch out for: do not use the "reserved" names in "fontname" parameters like "helv". Do something like that "myhelv" stuff.

[vb64]

Thanks, it works!

[JorjMcKie]

I think we should adapt the documentation accordingly. You were seduced to follow a path that is not recommendable.

[JorjMcKie]

Another comment about file sizing:
The file-based Base-14 equivalents unfortunately are not subsettable. Your PDF there has a 43KB size - which cannot be reduced.
If you use a font like "figo" (needs pymupdf-fonts installed) or "cjk" (standard), you will have a similar looking result (even nicer), but they are subsettable - leading to 4 KB only:

import fitz

assert "PyMuPDF 1.23.3:" in fitz.__doc__
font = fitz.Font("figo")  # needs package pymupdf-fonts
doc = fitz.open()
page = doc.new_page()
page.insert_font(fontname="myhelv", fontbuffer=font.buffer)
shape = page.new_shape()
shape.insert_text((50, 70), "Hello world!", fontname="myhelv")
shape.insert_text((50, 90), "Привет world!", fontname="myhelv")
shape.insert_text((50, 110), "Привет мир!", fontname="myhelv")
shape.commit()
doc.subset_fonts(verbose=True)  # shrinks all fonts to actually used characters
doc.ez_save("t.pdf")  # save with garbage option!