[reportlab-users] Problems with truetype barcode font

[Shayan Raghavjee]

Hi everyone,

I'm having a problem using a truetype font called 3of9.ttf. It gives me 
the following error:

TTFError: Font does not have cmap for Unicode (platform 3, encoding 1, 
format 4 or platform 0 any encoding format 4)

I've tried using a different truetype font like Arial for example, and 
that seems to work okay. Is there anything I can do to make the font 
work, or does anyone have an alternate font I could use?

It looks like the font can't handle Unicode text or something, but the 
error is raised when on the line:

   pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont('Barcode', 
'C:\\WINDOWS\\Fonts\\3of9.TTF'))

before I've even started making the PDF.

I'm not sure about the policy on attachments, so I haven't attached the 
font. If it's okay I can.

PS. I sent a copy of this from the wrong address, if any of the admins 
are reading you can reject the old one.

Thanks for any help,
Shayan Raghavjee