[reportlab-users] TTF Problem

[Robin Becker]

Ian, your character set uses a fairly odd set of code points so you need to use 
that in calls to drawString etc. I used the following code to grab hold of the 
relevant small set of code points

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from reportlab.pdfbase.ttfonts import TTFont
from reportlab.pdfgen.canvas import Canvas
fontName = "APP6A01"
ttf = TTFont(fontName, fontName+".TTF")
K = ttf.face.charToGlyph.keys()
registerFont(ttf)
c = Canvas('test%s.pdf' % fontName)
c.setFont('Helvetica', 30)
c.drawString(100,700, 'TrueType Font '+fontName)
y0 = 680
x0 = 72
y = y0
x = x0
dx0 = stringWidth('12345:', 'Courier', 10)
dx = dx0+20
dy = 20
for i, k in enumerate(K):
     c.setFont('Courier', 10)
     c.drawString(x,y,'%5d: ' % k )
     c.setFont(fontName, 10)
     c.drawString(x+dx0,y,unichr(k).encode('utf8'))
     x += dx
     if x-x0>6*72:
         x = x0
         y -= dy
c.showPage()
c.save()
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What this means in practice is that you cannot use the simple A-9 chars to get 
at your glyphs. In this font all the standard ASCII code points are unassigned.
-- 
Robin Becker