[reportlab-users] Re: Font Naming Problems

[Barrett Gay]

Robin Becker wrote:
> Barrett Gay wrote:
>> Barrett Gay wrote:
>>
> .....
>>
>> Robin,
>>
>> Thanks for the quick reply.  To clarify, I can open and view the 
>> document in Acrobat, however if I try and edit the text is when I 
>> have problems.  But it sounds like my problem is the fact that I am 
>> not embedding the font, so is there a way to do this?  If not are 
>> there any alternatives?
>>
>> Thanks again,
>>
>> Barrett
>
> OK what I think is going on here is that when you edit the document 
> the tool
> wants to use the same font and it can't find one called Verdana+0 on the
> hard drive. Perhaps there's something wrong with the way we embed the 
> ttf fonts. Perhaps there's some trick that would allow the subsetting 
> to be accomplished better.
That sounds about right.  Is there anything else that I can try or 
provide you with?  I am using version 1.20; I haven't tried any of the 
nightly builds.