Some characters are black squares when printed (trunk)

[Dukai Gábor]

Hi!
Trunk version.
Some accented characters appear as black squares on pdf files generated. Try for example with print screen on the product form. The characters: űőŰŐčćđČĆĐ

[Fabien (Open ERP) (fp-tinyerp)]

Hello,
We can not fix for v5, please createa blueprint so that we planify for v5.2

[Dukai Gábor (gdukai)]

In the countries where these languages are used this is critical.
The companies can't print invoices! National language support has been available for many years in the old programs they use.

Could you please provide a workaround if trunk won't be fixed?

Thank you

[Fabien (Open ERP) (fp-tinyerp)]

Yes, as soon as trunk is released, we will work on a fix for this.
I already find the solution on the wiki or forum (I can't remember) If
you surch for reportlab and unicode, you may have a fix for this.

Dukai Gábor wrote:
> In the countries where these languages are used this is critical.
> The companies can't print invoices! National language support has been available for many years in the old programs they use.
>
> Could you please provide a workaround if trunk won't be fixed?
>
>
> Thank you
>

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[Dukai Gábor (gdukai)]

Thanks for this hint.

Blueprint created: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openerp/+spec/unicode-reports
Wiki page for the details: http://openerp.com/wiki/index.php/Developers:Developper%27s_Book/Reports/ReportsUnicode

[Fabien (Open ERP) (fp-tinyerp)]

I think latest version of reportlab uses unicode by default ?
To be checked, may be it's just an option to turn on.

[Fabien (Open ERP) (fp-tinyerp)]

I reopen this bug because it seems reportlab 2.0 fully support unicode.
So why isn't it working in Open eRP?
See: http://www.reportlab.org/whatsnew_2_0.html

To be tested.

[Dukai Gábor (gdukai)]

It doesn't work because the fonts that are used in the reports (for example Helvetica) are old Type1 fonts that simply don't have these characters.
Please take a look at the wiki link included in the previous post.

[Fabien (Open ERP) (fp-tinyerp)]

Ok. I close the bug, I propose to write a module that include all these fonts and execute the queries.
As fonts takes some Mb, I prefer having this in a module: base_report_unicode.
Thanks

[lavardez (vlgiang)]

Have you got any release about the unicode report yet? I'm translating the module to Vietnamese but without the report we still have problem. Bump.

[Dukai Gábor (gdukai)]

Here's the module to solve this bug: http://exploringopenerp.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-module-basereportunicode.html

[lunomad (damon-metapaso)]

Hi Dukai,

I tried to install your module, but I got the following error:

 File "/usr/lib/openerp-server/addons/base_report_unicode/__init__.py", line 85, in <module>
    report.render.rml2pdf.parseNode = wrap_trml2pdf(report.render.rml2pdf.parseNode)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'parseNode'

Should I file a bug for this?

Also, the wiki link above has been changed to:

http://www.openobject.com/wiki/index.php/Developers:Developper%27s_Book/Reports/ReportsUnicode

[Dukai Gábor (gdukai)]

Hi!

That probably means that you use openerp-server <5.0.1 version. There was a change in the report generation code. Could you try either upgrading to 5.0.3 or commenting out that line if you need to stay with an old version?

[lunomad (damon-metapaso)]

Thanks, I pulled in the .deb file for 5.0.3 from debian unstable and with a couple of modifications got it to run on python2.5.

I migrated the DB and your module installed just fine. I then restarted the openerp-server to make sure everything was picked up.

However, now my Chinese characters are printing as open squares (no longer black boxes). Do your fonts include Chinese glyphs? I'm not trying to localize for Chinese, but I have a few Chinese and Japanese customers and I'd like to reference their documents.

Thanks!
Damon

[Dukai Gábor (gdukai)]

The capabilities of the DejaVu fonts are on their website: http://dejavu-fonts.org/
Please look at this topic: http://openobject.com/forum/topic9962.html and read the comments at the end.