[reportlab-users] ttfont checksum fails

[matt-lists at comnet.net.nz]

For those that are interested, once I removed the "enc" from the line:

pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont('Verdana', config_directory 
+ '/verdana.ttf',enc))

then all works fine.

Cheers 
Matt


On Thursday 28 December 2006 09:54, Reggie Crawford wrote:

> 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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