[reportlab-users] Problem with bar code fonts

[S 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.

Thanks for any help,
Shayan Raghavjee