[reportlab-users] Problem with bar code fonts

[Uwe C. Schroeder]

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There is a barcode extension to reportlab. Look at the reportlab.org site f=
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it. It will not use a barcode font, instead it will issue line draw command=
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that generate the barcode. This works great here.

On Monday 27 October 2003 12:06 am, S Raghavjee wrote:
> 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
>
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