[reportlab-users] Re: renderPM 'module'object hasno attribute 'saveToFile'

[Jose]

Hello

The type of error you mentioned is caused by not having the correct fonts on 
your machine or by renderPM not being able to find them.
On Linux, renderPM needs to know the locations of the following fonts:

AdobeSansMM.MMM.pfb
AdobeSansMM.pfb
AdobeSerifMM.MMM.pfb
AdobeSerifMM.pfb
Arial-BoldItalic.pfb
Arial-Bold.pfb
Arial-Italic.pfb
Arial.pfb
Courier-BoldOblique.pfb
Courier-Bold.pfb
Courier-Oblique.pfb
Courier.pfb
Symbol.pfb
TimesNewRoman-BoldItalic.pfb
TimesNewRoman-Bold.pfb
TimesNewRoman-Italic.pfb
TimesNewRoman.pfb
ZapfDingbats.pfb

These fonts may be downloaded from:

http://bioinf.scri.ac.uk/lp/downloads/programs/genomediagram/linfonts.zip

The locations that ReportLab will look for these fonts are defined in the file 
rl_config.py. The relevant part of this file, at the time of writing, looks 
like this: 

# places to look for T1Font information
T1SearchPath =  (
                'c:/Program Files/Adobe/Acrobat 6.0/Resource/Font', #Win32, 
Acrobat 6
                'c:/Program Files/Adobe/Acrobat 5.0/Resource/Font', #Win32, 
Acrobat 5
                'c:/Program Files/Adobe/Acrobat 4.0/Resource/Font', #Win32, 
Acrobat 4
                '%(disk)s/Applications/Python %(sys_version)s/reportlab/fonts', 
#Mac?
                '/usr/lib/Acrobat5/Resource/Font',      #Linux, Acrobat 5?
                '/usr/lib/Acrobat4/Resource/Font',      #Linux, Acrobat 4
                '/usr/local/Acrobat6/Resource/Font',    #Linux, Acrobat 5?
                '/usr/local/Acrobat5/Resource/Font',    #Linux, Acrobat 5?
                '/usr/local/Acrobat4/Resource/Font',    #Linux, Acrobat 4
                '%(REPORTLAB_DIR)s/fonts',              #special
                '%(REPORTLAB_DIR)s/../fonts',           #special
                '%(REPORTLAB_DIR)s/../../fonts',        #special
                '%(HOME)s/fonts',                       #special
                 )

Placing the font files in any of these locations should be enough to solve the 
problem. Otherwise, you may need to edit the rl_config.py file yourself to 
specify the appropriate location.

Regards

Jose