[Answer]-Django: Can't load cyrillic font in font-face

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Since this is number 2 place in Google for this question (after an issue in django-easy-pdf), here’s a solution.

This is the code that supplies the font files:

if settings.STATIC_URL and uri.startswith(settings.STATIC_URL):
    path = os.path.join(settings.STATIC_ROOT, uri.replace(settings.STATIC_URL, ""))
elif settings.MEDIA_URL and uri.startswith(settings.MEDIA_URL):
    path = os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, uri.replace(settings.MEDIA_URL, ""))
else:
    path = os.path.join(settings.STATIC_ROOT, uri)

So, your font must be either in STATIC_ROOT or MEDIA_ROOT on the server’s filesystem. Which means:

1) Add the font to static files of your project (assuming your static files are set up properly).

2) Important: run python manage.py collectstatic, so the file is actually copied there, even if you run the development server.

3) If you:

  • placed your font into static/fonts/awesomefont.ttf of your project
  • your STATIC_URL is, say /static_files/

Then you can use either of those:

/* Relative to static files' root */
@font-face { font-family: Awesome; src: url(fonts/awesomefont.ttf); }
/* Full static URL */
@font-face { font-family: Awesome; src: url(/static_files/fonts/awesomefont.ttf); }

Again, please note – the font will be loaded by xhtml2pdf utility, not the browser, so those files must be local to the machine Django is running on.

👤Xan

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