[reportlab-users] warnOnMissingFontGlyphs does not work?

[Gábor Farkas]

hi,

i have a simple script, like this:

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import reportlab.rl_config
reportlab.rl_config.warnOnMissingFontGlyphs = 1
from reportlab.pdfbase import pdfmetrics
from reportlab.pdfbase.ttfonts import TTFont
from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas

pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont('arial', 'arial.ttf'))
c = canvas.Canvas("hello.pdf")
c.setFont('arial', 32)
c.drawString(10, 150, "some text with missing glyphs")
c.showPage()
c.save()
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(the text contains some japanese characters that are not in arial.ttf)

i assumed that i get a warning, or an exception, but nothing.
the script finished without problems,
but in the pdf file (of course), there were only the usual rectangles in 
the place of the missing glyphs.


could you please tell me what am i doing wrong?


also, is there a way to specify more fonts, and somehow combine them so 
that reportlab picks the needed glyph from them? i mean, so that for 
example, arial.ttf will be the default, but when a glyph is missing, he 
takes it from kochi-mincho.ttf.

thanks,
gabor