[reportlab-users] TTF Problem

[Ian Millington]

Thanks Robin,

Ian. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: reportlab-users-bounces at reportlab.com 
> [mailto:reportlab-users-bounces at reportlab.com] On Behalf Of 
> Robin Becker
> Sent: 24 February 2006 17:05
> To: Support list for users of Reportlab software
> Subject: Re: [reportlab-users] TTF Problem
> 
> Ian Millington wrote:
> > Unusually, I have a TTF problem that isn't related to 
> Far-East fonts.
> > 
> > I am trying to overlay standard military planning symbols 
> onto a map, 
> > using the common (in military circles) MapSymb font package.
> > 
> > When I do:
> > 
> > pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont('ENEMY_Land',
> > 'c:/windows/fonts/app6a01.ttf'))
> > c = canvas.Canvas("test.pdf")
> > c.setFont('ENEMY_Land', 16)
> > 
> c.drawString(20,700,"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw
> > xyz012
> > 3456789")
> > c.showPage()
> > c.save()
> > 
> > I get a set of 'no such character' boxes rather than the 
> characters I need.
> > The same code works fine for other TTF fonts. What surprises me is 
> > that there is no error, so I don't know if it's a silent 
> font-parsing 
> > error, or something really stupid I'm missing.
> > 
> > The fonts work in other applications. They are a dingbat 
> fonts (i.e. 
> > symbols mapped to ASCII character codes). Nothing funky 
> with unicode 
> > going on. I can zip and send one, if need be.
> > 
> > I'd appreciate any help in solving this, I don't really 
> want to have 
> > to manually draw these symbols in code.
> > 
> ... if you send me the font I'll take a look inside and see 
> what's going on. 
> We're doing some work right now on the utf8 branch which may 
> be relevant.
> 
> --
> Robin Becker
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