Print: Poor Cyrillic support in Map Title, Map comment, when printing a map

[bitmapbulgaria]

Description:
When user prints a map with a title and comment, written in Cyrillic, the result is not readable.
On the example, there is two variants of the same print (in English, and in Cyrillic):

English:

Cyrillic:

To Reproduce:
Just try to print a map with a Title and comment in Cyrillic (I used Bulgarian layout) with Print plugin

Instance:

• OS: Ubuntu 22.04
• NodeJS version (new-admin, new-backend, new-client)
• Browser Chrome, 92
• Hajk Version 3.10.0, release candidate 2, master branch

[bitmapbulgaria]

UPDATE: I solved the problem. This fix works with every TTF font , not only Cyrillic.

1. I have generated binary representation of a TTF font, in my case FreeMonoBold.ttf (my file: http://bugis-robg.eu:1111/qgis/resources/ttfFont.js )

2. Store it in the folder of the plugin, at /new-client/src/plugins/Print/

3. Declaration of the constant in PrintModel.js with: import myTTFFont from "./ttfFont.js";

4. Inserted a simple code for the title, comment and other text attributes of the map:

    pdf.addFileToVFS("MyFont.ttf", myTTFFont);
    pdf.addFont("MyFont.ttf", "MyFont", "normal");
    pdf.setFont("MyFont");
   

5. Recompiled the Client part an publish it.

6. My updated PrintModel.js is published at: http://bugis-robg.eu:1111/qgis/resources/PrintModel.js

P.S. I'm sure there is more elegant way to solve this, but I'm a JS noob and for now this is all I can make for the Cyrillic support. I hope this will help, cheers!

The result:

[Hallbergs]

Good job solving it! I found a similar solution when i was investigating it yesterday! I will look into getting the fix into the next release. (We will probably have to incorporate some logic regarding how we select which font that should be set).

[Hallbergs]

I added a similar solution to yours, (decided to go with the Roboto font, since we use it everywhere else in the application).

I added "normal" instead of "bold", and i think it might be a bit to thin? What do you think? @jesade-vbg @jacobwod @OlofSvahnVbg

Feel free to test other fonts in this branch: https://github.com/hajkmap/Hajk/tree/fix/1181-cyrillic-print-support

[bitmapbulgaria]

Hi! I think the Roboto font for Cyrillic texts font is awesome! In Cyrillic glyphs are a way rounded, than in English, so the font is even better in Cyr. Maybe it is not bad idea to have a menu for choosing a font from some pool (with, about 10-15 fonts) in the Print/settings window. But for now-Roboto Normal is very good. Thanks for the fix!

[jacobwod]

This is a great find @Hallbergs & @bitmapbulgaria.

I took a look at the feature branch and although I agree that we could expand it (by adding a font select menu, etc), I think that this already is a great feature and I'd love seeing it merged. 💯 🥇

Edit: Just adding a note here so we "connect" this issue with the related #502.

[bitmapbulgaria]

Just another small fix needed ( I have got hardcoded the value of these in Cyrillic and it works-I have setup my GeoServer Cyrillic aliases for the real field names):

  "searchFields": [
    "улица"
  ],

  "infobox": "",
  "aliasDict": "",
  "displayFields": [
    "улица"
  ],

  "shortDisplayFields": [
    "улица"
  ]

Otherwise, it is impossible to save Cyrillic values for the field names in Admin Panel:

This is a screenshot of the red colored inputs.

[Hallbergs]

We'll close it when it's merged to master :)