[reportlab-users] ZapfDingbats icon problem

[Dave S]

On Friday 24 November 2006 09:56, Robin Becker wrote:

> Dave S wrote:

> > On Friday 24 November 2006 01:10, François Wautier wrote:

> >> Hi,

>

> .........

>

> > You are right ! In Adobe reader on XP and Linux its a no show, on

> > Konqueror it shows AOK

> >

> > I thought (reading the reportlab docs) that ZapfDingbats was a guaranteed

> > (built in) font ? I guess not !

> >

> > Thanks for your help

> >

> > Dave

>

> .......

>

> That font is a builtin with acrobat reader. Any other reader will likely

> present problems; 


Ahh ... the reader that came with my copy of XP is adobe reader - so although 
reportlab supports ZapfDingbats, adobe reader appears not to so the black 
squares ...


> did you try running the 

> reportlab/demos/stdfonts/stdfonts.py demo script.


I just ran it and got the 2 x pdfs, complete with a list of all the 
ZapfDingbats icons.


So being a little dumb here ... reportlab has the ZapfDingbats font, If I use 
the above script and open the resulting PDF in Linux's Konqueror it shows as 
expected. I assume it would show as expected in acrobat reader also.

Sooooo how do I get my pdf to show as expected in XPs standard adobe reader - 
at a guess I would have to import the font into the generated PDF document - 
or am I missing something ?

Assuming I am right I looked in reportlabs fonts dir but could not find the 
ZapfDingbats font there.

Can anyone clarify this for me - I am a little confused

Cheers

Dave