[reportlab-users] ZapfDingbats icon problem

[Andy Robinson]

> 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.


Actually, we don't have these fonts.  The PDF specification states that 
they are present in Adobe Reader, and we just have to put the right 
bytes in the file.

Let's compare how Adobe Reader behaves on our platforms.
In Adobe Reader 7.0 on Win XP Pro, I see all the icons fine after running..
  reportlab\demos\stdfonts\stdfonts.py
..and looking at the last page of...
  StandardFonts_WinAnsi.pdf


I then go to File | Document Properties | Fonts and see the following
entries for ZapfDingbats.
  Type: Type 1
  Encoding: BuiltIn
  Actual Font: AdobePiStd
  Actual Font Type: Type 1

What does it say on your Linux?  Sometimes Adobe Reader may use local 
fonts on the system to display things (e.g. it uses ArialMT on my system 
to display Helvetica), and my hunch is that it might be doing this and 
picking up a font with a different encoding.  I know nothing about
Linux fonts and whether they are shared by different apps.




- Andy