[reportlab-users] Generated PDFs missing fonts

Robin Becker robin at reportlab.com
Sat Jun 11 07:48:29 EDT 2005


Robin Becker wrote:
> Matthew Somerville wrote:
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> .....
> 
> your assumption is correct. The intention is that the ttf fonts are 
> embedded in small (length 256) subsets. Each subset certainly references 
> the original TTF file, but I don't actually see that the fontfile is 
> being internalized.  I'm not the TTF expert so we need help from Marius 
> Gedminas who did the original work.
> 
> Can you send an example of a problematic file. I don't know the 
> Transport and Rockwell fonts.
> 
> It might be possible to force the whole file into the document if that's 
> required; I would need to check the PDF docs.
Looking at the ttfonts.py file a bit more closely, I see that the glyph 
data is certainly being included in the pdf output which seems to imply 
the fontfiles are not needed. Perhaps some other problem is being observed.

-- 
Robin Becker


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