[reportlab-users] suggestion for fonts

[Robin Becker]

Jerome Alet wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 02:25:02PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 07:29, Andy Robinson wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Sensible, I just added this in.  It will look for './fonts' in the 
>>>current directory whenever reportlab is first imported.  Our
>>>standard approach checks to see if lots of possible directories
>>>exist, and only existing ones end up on the path, so this is cheap.
>>
>>On Linux, it might also be an idea to look at $HOME/.fonts as that's
>>where FontConfig keeps user-installed fonts by default.
> 
> 
> yes would be fine as well.
> 
> yesterday I forgot to say why I wanted this, so here's why :
> 
> when you had enormous difficulties to have an hosting provider
> install ReportLab, and he did it NOT in your own directory but
> system wide, and now you want additionnal fonts, it's not as
> easy as it could be.
> 
> any comment ?
> 
> Jerome Alet
> _______________________________________________
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We could add a HOME variable to the rl config stuff. Then you could do

'%(HOME)s/fonts'

in the search paths. HOME can be obtained from the environment and could default 
to '.' in the worst case of not being defined.
-- 
Robin Becker