pdffontscentosnon-latin

support in non latin fonts in centos

I'm trying to enable export html to pdf in my language (Hebrew). The html and export work fine on my local machine (Mac).

I'm using https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/

On the remote machine(Centos7) The html works with the Hebrew fonts but the export to pdf outputs this

PDF OUTPUT

I've tried following:
 1. 

<head>
    <meta name="pdfkit-page-size" content="Legal"/>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/webapp/plugins/manual/pdf.css">
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
</head>
  1. sudo yum install curl cabextract xorg-x11-font-utils fontconfig
  2. sudo yum install liberation-sans-fonts
  3. sudo yum install dejavu-lgc-sans-fonts (from: https://gist.github.com/drakakisgeo/7591660)

None worked.

The output of locale

[my_user@ip-172-31-34-70 ~]$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

Any suggestions?

Solution

  • The answer is that the remote server didn't have the right fonts.

    I have also solved this by just copying Arial.ttf from my local mac in /Library/Fonts 

    scp -i "$STAGING_CERT_PATH" Arial.ttf root@"$STAGING_IP":/usr/share/fonts/local/

    to my remote server to /usr/share/fonts/local (created the local dir myself).

    then fc-cache -v to update and it worked