[reportlab-users] Re: Font Naming Problems

[Barrett Gay]

Robin Becker wrote:
> Barrett Gay wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> .... after perusing the pdf spec 1.4 I think I see what's wrong. It 
> seems we were using subset names of the form
>
> SUBSET+TAHOMA+0
> SUBSET+TAHOMA+1
>
> etc etc
>
> from the spec it seems as though we should be using the 6 character 
> uppercase letter tag to differentiate the subsets eg the above could 
> properly be
>
> AAAAAA+TAHOMA
> AAAAAB+TAHOMA
> AAAAAC+......
>
> I have made a small change in the attached file, ttfonts_py.zip, can 
> you try putting ttfonts.py from this in your reportlab/pdfbase folder 
> and see if it improves the ability of Professional at editing?
>
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Patch seems to work perfectly.  The font is named properly and I can 
edit the document without any errors.  Thanks!

Barrett