[reportlab-users] parseAFMFile sfsc1200.afm

Robin Becker robin at reportlab.com
Tue Aug 23 13:29:51 EDT 2005


Gregor Horvath wrote:
.....
> 
> Running the script with the example font in the fonts order works.
> 
> I discoverd that the sfsc1200.afm contains float numbers for the width:
> 
> 
> [....]
> C 32 ; WX 363.338 ; N space ; B 0 0 0 0 ;
> [...]
> 
> The working afm file contains integers.
> 
> Now, is the afm file wrong or is it a bug in reportlab??
> 

I'm not sure; I'll have a look at the original parseafm.c code and also at any 
docs I can find from Adobe. I don't think it's a major problem to fix as python 
won't really care if it is an int or float, but I think some of our accelerator 
code might want it to be an int.
-- 
Robin Becker


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