added configuration option for the font #197 #207

docs/configuration.rst

@@ -400,6 +400,15 @@ PAPERLESS_FILENAME_DATE_ORDER=<format>
 
     Defaults to none, which disables this feature.
 
+PAPERLESS_THUMBNAIL_FONT_NAME=<filename>
+    Paperless creates thumbnails for plain text files by rendering the content
+    of the file on an image and uses a predefined font for that. This
+    font can be changed here.
+
+    Note that this won't have any effect on already generated thumbnails.
+
+    Defaults to ``/usr/share/fonts/liberation/LiberationSerif-Regular.ttf``.
+
 
 Binaries
 ########

paperless.conf.example

@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@
 #PAPERLESS_POST_CONSUME_SCRIPT=/path/to/an/arbitrary/script.sh
 #PAPERLESS_FILENAME_DATE_ORDER=YMD
 #PAPERLESS_FILENAME_PARSE_TRANSFORMS=[]
+#PAPERLESS_THUMBNAIL_FONT_NAME=
 
 # Binaries
 

src/paperless/settings.py

@@ -422,3 +422,5 @@ for t in json.loads(os.getenv("PAPERLESS_FILENAME_PARSE_TRANSFORMS", "[]")):
 # TODO: this should not have a prefix.
 # Specify the filename format for out files
 PAPERLESS_FILENAME_FORMAT = os.getenv("PAPERLESS_FILENAME_FORMAT")
+
+THUMBNAIL_FONT_NAME = os.getenv("PAPERLESS_THUMBNAIL_FONT_NAME", "/usr/share/fonts/liberation/LiberationSerif-Regular.ttf")

src/paperless_text/parsers.py

@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 import os
-import subprocess
 
 from PIL import ImageDraw, ImageFont, Image
 from django.conf import settings
 
-from documents.parsers import DocumentParser, ParseError
+from documents.parsers import DocumentParser
 
 
 class TextDocumentParser(DocumentParser):
@@ -23,7 +22,8 @@ class TextDocumentParser(DocumentParser):
         img = Image.new("RGB", (500, 700), color="white")
         draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
         font = ImageFont.truetype(
-            "/usr/share/fonts/liberation/LiberationSerif-Regular.ttf", 20,
+            font=settings.THUMBNAIL_FONT_NAME,
+            size=20,
             layout_engine=ImageFont.LAYOUT_BASIC)
         draw.text((5, 5), read_text(), font=font, fill="black")