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I'm trying to use a Korean font on Matplotlib, but it is not working

The Korean font I am trying to link is not being applied--the graph is blank where Korean hangul would be.
I tried to link directly to a Korean font so as not to have to provide a local path, but it is still not working. It gives me errors saying the current font does not have that unicode character.
Here's the start of my code where I linked the font.
import re
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import lyricsgenius as genius
from matplotlib import font_manager
font_url = "https://fonts.googleapis.com/earlyaccess/nanumgothic.css"
font_prop = font_manager.FontProperties(fname=font_url)

Creating report in PDF with images from python

I want to make a PDF with report from the python plots I have made.
I am importing those images to pdf with the following lines:
import os
import img2pdf
with open("report.pdf", "wb") as f:
f.write(img2pdf.convert([i for i in os.listdir('C:\\Users\\rysza\\Desktop\\python data analysis\\zajecia5') if i.endswith(".jpg")]))
My question is how can I create additional page in front of the images where I can put some text.
I was trying with this, but seems not to be working:
from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
c = canvas.Canvas("report.pdf")
c.drawString(100,750,"Welcome to Reportlab!")
Any options are welcome.

You can do it with fpdf lib
here you can find code examples here
https://python-scripts.com/create-pdf-pyfpdf
(also you can translate page to english with https://translate.yandex.ru/translate )

Telugu (Unicode) font not rendering correctly in pyfpdf

I am trying to render Telugu text into pdf using pyfpdf.
The problem is with font rendition in fpdf.
What might be the problem?
The code I used is :
#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf8 -*-
from fpdf import FPDF
pdf = FPDF()
pdf.add_page()
pdf.add_font('lakkireddy', '', 'LakkiReddy.ttf', uni=True)
pdf.set_font('lakkireddy','', 16)
pdf.cell(40,10,u'హలో ప్రపంచమా!')
pdf.output('testfpdf.pdf','F')`
The expected output is :
But the actual output is broken text :
What could be the issue, Is it the font, Is it encoding or Is it font rendering engine?
Can I define which font rendering engine to use?

I am not familiar with fpdf but it seems that fpdf does not support proper text shaping for complex scripts. Glyph shapes change based on glyph position in the string and based on its neighbor glyphs but fpdf does not seem to do this kind of processing by default.
You have to check if there are options in fpdf for specifying this kind of processing for complex scripts.

Writing Greek in matplotlib labels, titles

I am trying to write some text in Greek for labels, figure title etc. to accompany my plots but so far to no avail.
I don't want to print specific letters (I know how to do this using the special characters notation), I'd rather write the whole text in Greek (probably using Unicode and u'text' ?).
Before receiving suggestions I would like to mention that for some reason I can't get matplotlib to cooperate with TeX (using Ipython notebook from anaconda in Ubuntu 14.10), so that wouldn't really be an option.
I tried loading Arial font and it does load successfully but again I get square blocks instead of characters. I used
import matplotlib.font_manager as fm
prop = fm.FontProperties(fname='/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Arial.ttf')
and then for displaying the string I used u'Αποτελέσματα προσομοίωσης'. Arial is supposed to render Greek perfectly and I have used it many times in text editors.

I managed to solve the problem by doing the following:
First, you have to import the necessary libraries and set a font installed on the computer that can for sure render Greek, like the Ubuntu font (Ubuntu Bold in the following code).
import matplotlib.font_manager as fm
fp1 = fm.FontProperties(fname='/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/Ubuntu-B.ttf')
then you can specifically apply the chosen font to each label, title etc as follows:
plt.title(u"Τίτλος του γραφήματος",fontproperties=fp1)
If that doesn't seem to work, try adding the following line at the beginning of the file:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
A sample plot is provided to prove the correctness of the code:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.font_manager as fm
import numpy as np
fp1 = fm.FontProperties(fname='/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/Ubuntu-B.ttf')
data = np.random.randn(5000) #generate some random data
plt.plot(data)
plt.title(u"Τίτλος του γραφήματος", fontproperties=fp1)
plt.xlabel(u"Άξονας x", fontproperties=fp1)
plt.ylabel(u"Άξονας y", fontproperties=fp1)
plt.show()
It should give you something like that:

ReportLab Django Not Rendering Chinese Characters

I'm having difficulty making ReportLab render Chinese Characters. From everything I've looked up people are saying that it is probably a font problem but I've used a lot of different fonts and it doesn't even seem to be using them at all. The Chinese characters always just come out as black squares. Below is some sample code of what I have.
# -*- coding: utf8 -*-
from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import letter
from reportlab.pdfbase.ttfonts import TTFont
from io import BytesIO
pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont('Arial', 'arial.ttf', 'UTF-8'))
buffer = BytesIO()
doc = SimpleDocTemplate(buffer,
rightMargin=inch*0.5, # 1/2 Inch
leftMargin=inch*0.5, # 1/2 Inch
bottomMargin=0,
topMargin=inch*0.375, # 3/8 Inch
pagesize=letter)
# Get Styles
styles = getSampleStyleSheet()
# Custom Style
styles.add(ParagraphStyle(name='Address', font='Arial', fontSize=8))
elements = []
elements.append(Paragraph(u'6905\u897f\u963f\u79d1\u8857\uff0c\u5927\u53a6\uff03\u5927', styles['Address']))
doc.build(elements)
# Get the value of the BytesIO buffer and write it to the response.
pdf = buffer.getvalue()
buffer.close()
return pdf
I'm using an arial.ttf font found on my Ubuntu 12.04 installation in the fonts folder. I have also tried other fonts installed on this machine and all have exactly the same look even on the numbers and none of the Chinese characters are anything other than black squares.
Am I registering fonts wrong if even the numbers at the beginning aren't printing correctly? What could be causing the black squares?

Solved it. Turns out in your ParagraphStyle it needs to be fontName="Arial" not font="Arial" but I did learn some other tricks of getting it to work in other ways below.
styles.add(ParagraphStyle(name='Address', fontName='Arial')
After doing some digging I've learned a few things that I hope helps someone else in this situation. When you add the tags inside of your Paragraph around the Unicode text and set it explicitly to a font it will work.
elements.append(Paragraph(u'<font name="Arial">6905\u897f\u963f\u79d1\u8857\uff0c\u5927\u53a6\uff03\u5927</font>', styles['Address']))
This fixes the problem at least for Paragraphs with various fonts.
Again this code will work.

Choose the fonts that supports Chinese characters.
In Ubuntu, I choose "AR PL UMing CN" for example.
My code snippets:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
...
pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont('AR PL UMing CN', 'uming.ttc'))
styles = getSampleStyleSheet()
...
styles.add(ParagraphStyle(name='Chinese', fontName='AR PL UMing CN', fontSize=20))
elements=[]
elements.append(Paragraph("成”, styles['Chinese']))
doc.build(elements)
...
I can even change to Chinese editor and type in the character straight off. Hope this helps.