[reportlab-users] Font does not have cmap for Unicode

[Jose Soares]

Tim Roberts ha scritto:

>On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:25:05 +0100, Jose Soares <jo at sferacarta.com> wrote:
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>>In the user manual at page 47  we can read:
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>>3.4 Asian Font Support
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>>We do not yet support TrueType Unicode fonts with subsetting.
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>>Is this feature yet a missing in ReportLab?
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>Whether it is or not, that's NOT the problem with this font.  Your "OCR
>B" font is not Unicode at all.  It is a symbol font, which means it has
>some font-specific character set mapping that Reportlab cannot possibly
>understand.  In such fonts, there is no guarantee that the position for
>letter "B" actually has anything to do with letter "B".
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>There are OCR fonts that do have Unicode mappings.  Perhaps you should
>search further.
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You are right Tim, I installed another file and now it works fine.
Thank you

jo