[reportlab-users] any help plz ....

[Marius Gedminas]

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On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 01:41:09PM -0800, sarah el-lawindy wrote:
> dear Jerome Alet
>   hi , i know  u got very bored from my very very primitaive
>   questions, but i really need any help.
>   ok, do u know  anything about unicode thing? i tried to write a
>   unicode string, but the compiler gave me a error, "not a valid UTF-8
>   string" an then i tried another one (i got it from the mailing list
>   archive), but gave another error " something (i can't remeber) then
>   ordinal 128" . so do u know the solution for this ?

If you showed your code, it would be easier to see were the problem is.

This should work:

  from reportlab.pdfbase import pdfmetrics
  from reportlab.pdfbase.ttfonts import TTFont

  # Change this to where Arial.ttf lives
  fontdir =3D '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/'
  pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont('MyArial', fontdir + 'Arial.ttf'))
  # If I try to use just 'Arial', I get this error from reportlab
  # 1.18debian-1.1:
  # ValueError: _tt2ps_map[('arial', 1, 0)]=3D=3DArial-Bold already, not Ar=
ial

  from reportlab.pdfgen.canvas import Canvas

  canvas =3D Canvas('foo.pdf')
  canvas.setFont('MyArial', 12)
  canvas.drawString(100, 700, u"Test: \u010A\u010B".encode("UTF-8"))
  canvas.save()

Marius Gedminas
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