[reportlab-users] Problems with truetype barcode font

Robin Becker reportlab-users@reportlab.com
Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:33:12 +0000


In article <3F9D0082.8060908@sjsoft.com>, Shayan Raghavjee
<shayanr@sjsoft.com> writes
>Hi everyone,
......
>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 fairly sure we only handle UTF 8 at present. Marius will have
the answer if any though.
-- 
Robin Becker