[reportlab-users] ttfont checksum fails

[Reggie Crawford]

You might want to try webcore fonts for Linux, I've had success using them
on Ubuntu 6.10 and Redhat 9.

http://avi.alkalay.net/software/webcore-fonts/

Reggie

On 12/27/06, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

>

> matt-lists at comnet.net.nz wrote:

> > I'm in the middle of putting together a function in an application I

> maintain

> > to create reports in pdf format.  The application has been translated

> into a

> > number of different languages, and so I need to generate a report using

> a

> > font that has good non-latin character support.  At the moment, I've

> chosen

> > verdana.

> > ...

> > to register the font with reportlab (config_directory is a variable

> holding

> > the path to the directory where the verdana fonts I want to use are

> held).

> > However,  on executing this code, I'm getting the following error:

> >

> > Traceback (most recent call last):

> > ...  File

> "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/reportlab/pdfbase/ttfonts.py", line

> > 309, in checksumFile

> >     raise TTFError('TTF file "%s": invalid checksum %s len: %d &3: %d' %

> > (self.filename

> ,hex32(checkSum),len(self._ttf_data),(len(self._ttf_data)&3)))

> > reportlab.pdfbase.ttfonts.TTFError: TTF

> > file "/home/matt/.superkaramba/lwp/verdana.ttf": invalid checksum

> 0XBBB0AFBA

> > len: 149753 &3: 1

> >

> > It appears that the checksum is failing.

>

> Verdana isn't part of Linux, so you must have copied it from a Windows

> system.  Is it possible that you copied the font to your Linux system

> using FTP without using binary mode?  My Windows verdana.ttf is 171,792

> bytes long.

>

> --

> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com

> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

>

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