[reportlab-users] Unicode for tables

[Andy Robinson]

anu radha wrote:

> Hi Andy,

> 

> I tried with comic.ttf. I got PDF file with correct characters for greek.

> 

>     fontname1 = 'cs'

>     my_location_of_TTF = Installed directory '\\Fonts\\comic.ttf'

>     pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont(fontname1,my_location_of_TTF))

> 

> How can we know which language support which ttf file?

> Is there any specifications for that? Please help me.

> 

Just van Rossum's FontTools can convert a font to an XML representation
where you see the character names.   Also if you type "Font viewer" into
Google there seem to be lots of tools.

Hope this helps,

- Andy