[reportlab-users] TrueType and German Umlaut

[Dirk Holtwick]

> Could you try to be more precise and show some code and tracebacks?

here's an example:

from reportlab.pdfgen.canvas import Canvas
from reportlab.lib.styles import getSampleStyleSheet
from reportlab.lib.units import inch
from reportlab.platypus import Paragraph, Frame
from reportlab.pdfbase import pdfmetrics
from reportlab.pdfbase.ttfonts import TTFont
from reportlab.lib.fonts import addMapping

ttf = "test.ttf"
name = "milano"
pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont(name, ttf))
addMapping(name, 0, 0, name) #normal
addMapping(name, 0, 1, name) #italic
addMapping(name, 1, 0, name) #bold
addMapping(name, 1, 1, name) #italic and bol

styles = getSampleStyleSheet()
styleN = styles['Normal']
story = []
story.append(Paragraph("""
     <font face="milano">äöü Test FONT Milano</font>
     """, styleN))
c = Canvas('mydoc.pdf')
f = Frame(inch, inch, 6*inch, 9*inch, showBoundary=1)
f.addFromList(story,c)
c.save()

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the traceback:

Warn: Font milano: _not an encoding_  not found - using Courier: _not an 
encoding_  for widths
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "pdftest.py", line 25, in ?
     f.addFromList(story,c)
   File "H:\work\dado2\python21\reportlab\platypus\frames.py", line 179, 
in addFromList
     if self.add(head,canv,trySplit=0):
   File "H:\work\dado2\python21\reportlab\platypus\frames.py", line 111, 
in _add
     w, h = flowable.wrap(self._aW, h)
   File "H:\work\dado2\python21\reportlab\platypus\paragraph.py", line 
382, in wrap
     self.blPara = self.breakLines([first_line_width, later_widths])
   File "H:\work\dado2\python21\reportlab\platypus\paragraph.py", line 
491, in breakLines
     wordWidth = stringWidth(word, fontName, fontSize)
   File "H:\work\dado2\python21\reportlab\pdfbase\pdfmetrics.py", line 
668, in _SWRecover
     return _stringWidth(text,'courier',fontSize,encoding)
_rl_accel.error: unknown font

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Everything works fine if you strip the chars "äöü" from the abvoe 
example. If I change the string to unicode the parser says that it 
doesn't like non ascii stuff.

bye, dirk