Font spacing issue

[tomjones1977]

When using the pdf export tool within a CI pipeline, the PDF has odd spacing issues with the output. The alpine base container has had the fonts installed as part of the build using the following:

RUN apk add fontconfig ttf-roboto ttf-roboto-mono ttf-font-awesome ttf-freefont font-noto terminus-font \
    && fc-cache -f \
    && fc-list | sort

However the PDF is output with odd spacing in the fonts, as per the screenshot below:

Nothing I change seems to fix this - any idea what could be causing it?

[SamueleSoraggi]

Same problem here, still not found a solution

[glenux]

Same problem here.

• It shows the strange spaces between the letters when the PDFs are combined (combined: true).
• When PDF are generated as separate files the result is perfectly fine (combined: false).

The configuration i use for the plugin :

plugins:
  - pdf-export:
      verbose: true
      media_type: print
      enabled_if_env: ENABLE_PDF_EXPORT
      combined: true

The Pipfile

[[source]]
name = "pypi"
url = "https://pypi.org/simple"
verify_ssl = true

[dev-packages]

[packages]
mkdocs = "*"
mkdocs-material = "*"
mdx-truly-sane-lists = "*"
pymdown-extensions = "*"
honcho = "*"
pyinotify = "*"
mkdocs-pdf-export-plugin = "*"

[requires]
python_version = "3.8"

Output of pipenv graph

Brotli==1.0.9
honcho==1.0.1
mdx-truly-sane-lists==1.2
  - Markdown [required: >=2.6, installed: 3.3.4]
mkdocs-material==7.3.3
  - jinja2 [required: >=2.11.1, installed: 3.0.2]
    - MarkupSafe [required: >=2.0, installed: 2.0.1]
  - markdown [required: >=3.2, installed: 3.3.4]
  - mkdocs [required: >=1.2.2, installed: 1.2.3]
    - click [required: >=3.3, installed: 8.0.3]
    - ghp-import [required: >=1.0, installed: 2.0.2]
      - python-dateutil [required: >=2.8.1, installed: 2.8.2]
        - six [required: >=1.5, installed: 1.16.0]
    - importlib-metadata [required: >=3.10, installed: 4.8.1]
      - zipp [required: >=0.5, installed: 3.6.0]
    - Jinja2 [required: >=2.10.1, installed: 3.0.2]
      - MarkupSafe [required: >=2.0, installed: 2.0.1]
    - Markdown [required: >=3.2.1, installed: 3.3.4]
    - mergedeep [required: >=1.3.4, installed: 1.3.4]
    - packaging [required: >=20.5, installed: 21.0]
      - pyparsing [required: >=2.0.2, installed: 2.4.7]
    - PyYAML [required: >=3.10, installed: 6.0]
    - pyyaml-env-tag [required: >=0.1, installed: 0.1]
      - pyyaml [required: Any, installed: 6.0]
    - watchdog [required: >=2.0, installed: 2.1.6]
  - mkdocs-material-extensions [required: >=1.0, installed: 1.0.3]
  - pygments [required: >=2.4, installed: 2.10.0]
  - pymdown-extensions [required: >=9.0, installed: 9.0]
    - Markdown [required: >=3.2, installed: 3.3.4]
mkdocs-pdf-export-plugin==0.5.10
  - beautifulsoup4 [required: >=4.6.3, installed: 4.10.0]
    - soupsieve [required: >1.2, installed: 2.2.1]
  - mkdocs [required: >=0.17, installed: 1.2.3]
    - click [required: >=3.3, installed: 8.0.3]
    - ghp-import [required: >=1.0, installed: 2.0.2]
      - python-dateutil [required: >=2.8.1, installed: 2.8.2]
        - six [required: >=1.5, installed: 1.16.0]
    - importlib-metadata [required: >=3.10, installed: 4.8.1]
      - zipp [required: >=0.5, installed: 3.6.0]
    - Jinja2 [required: >=2.10.1, installed: 3.0.2]
      - MarkupSafe [required: >=2.0, installed: 2.0.1]
    - Markdown [required: >=3.2.1, installed: 3.3.4]
    - mergedeep [required: >=1.3.4, installed: 1.3.4]
    - packaging [required: >=20.5, installed: 21.0]
      - pyparsing [required: >=2.0.2, installed: 2.4.7]
    - PyYAML [required: >=3.10, installed: 6.0]
    - pyyaml-env-tag [required: >=0.1, installed: 0.1]
      - pyyaml [required: Any, installed: 6.0]
    - watchdog [required: >=2.0, installed: 2.1.6]
  - weasyprint [required: >=0.44, installed: 53.3]
    - cffi [required: >=0.6, installed: 1.15.0]
      - pycparser [required: Any, installed: 2.20]
    - cssselect2 [required: >=0.1, installed: 0.4.1]
      - tinycss2 [required: Any, installed: 1.1.0]
        - webencodings [required: >=0.4, installed: 0.5.1]
      - webencodings [required: Any, installed: 0.5.1]
    - fonttools [required: >=4.0.0, installed: 4.27.1]
    - html5lib [required: >=1.0.1, installed: 1.1]
      - six [required: >=1.9, installed: 1.16.0]
      - webencodings [required: Any, installed: 0.5.1]
    - Pillow [required: >=4.0.0, installed: 8.3.2]
    - pydyf [required: >=0.0.3, installed: 0.1.1]
    - Pyphen [required: >=0.9.1, installed: 0.11.0]
    - tinycss2 [required: >=1.0.0, installed: 1.1.0]
      - webencodings [required: >=0.4, installed: 0.5.1]
pyinotify==0.9.6
zopfli==0.1.8

[chrisesharp]

This is still a problem for me, too...has anyone managed to find a workaround?

[wabamonsta]

Im having the same issue

[rvanbekkum]

Running into the same issue, after installing everything on a new self-hosted build server (Windows Server 2022).

[rvanbekkum]

I have reverted the versions of the installed packages back to the following:

beautifulsoup4==4.8.1
cairocffi==1.1.0
CairoSVG==2.4.2
cffi==1.13.0
Click==7.0
cssselect2==0.2.2
defusedxml==0.6.0
future==0.18.2
html5lib==1.0.1
htmlmin==0.1.12
importlib-metadata==3.7.3
Jinja2==2.10.3
joblib==1.0.1
jsmin==2.2.2
livereload==2.6.1
lunr==0.5.8
Markdown==3.3.4
MarkupSafe==1.1.1
mkdocs==1.1.2
mkdocs-material==7.0.6
mkdocs-material-extensions==1.0.1
mkdocs-minify-plugin==0.2.1
mkdocs-pdf-export-plugin==0.5.8
nltk==3.5
pep562==1.0
Pillow==6.2.0
pycparser==2.19
Pygments==2.8.1
pymdown-extensions==8.1.1
Pyphen==0.9.5
PyYAML==5.1.2
regex==2021.3.17
six==1.12.0
soupsieve==1.9.4
tinycss2==1.0.2
tornado==6.0.3
tqdm==4.59.0
typing-extensions==3.7.4.3
WeasyPrint==50
webencodings==0.5.1
zipp==3.4.1

And have installed gtk3-runtime-3.24.11-2019-10-04. After that restarted the server.
(N.B. This was the configuration running on our old build server)

Now everything works fine again. Was not able yet to determine which package is causing the problems, but I think it might be the latest version(s) of WeasyPrint or the latest GTK3 runtime.

[ov3rk1ll]

I ran into the same problem and came across this issue.

For it was enough to just update WeasyPrint (WeasyPrint==50 in my requirements.txt) to fix this problem on my (GitLab) build server