[reportlab-users] Verdana and TTF error

[Ian Sparks]

Robin Becker wrote:
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This problem is caused by a bad attempt at font aliases. I vbelieve that =
has now=20
been removed and we plan to do something better.
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Ulrich, I had to work around this "font alias" problem in my own code. =
It's annoying but I simply did :

pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont('XVerdana', 'VERDANA.TTF'))

then used the name XVerdana instead of Verdana in my code. This doesn't =
have to be painful if you define a constant and use that throughout.

FONT_NAME =3D "XVerdana"



-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Becker [mailto:robin@reportlab.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 12:06 PM
To: reportlab-users@reportlab.com
Subject: Re: [reportlab-users] Verdana and TTF error


Ulrich Wisser wrote:

> Hi,
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> as was suggested earlier in the list I installed the VERDANA.TTF file =
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> my Linux box. The file is found, but when I try to register the font=20
> like this
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>     pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont('Verdana', 'VERDANA.TTF'))
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> I get an error message (please find it below).
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> What is wrong with the font?
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> Thanks from sunny Stockholm
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> Ulrich
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This problem is caused by a bad attempt at font aliases. I vbelieve that =
has now=20
been removed and we plan to do something better.
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Robin Becker
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