[reportlab-users] ZapfDingbats icon problem

[Dave S]

On Saturday 25 November 2006 08:48, Dave S wrote:

> On Saturday 25 November 2006 02:23, François Wautier wrote:

> > Hi Guys,

> >

> > I could not visualise the attached file with acrobat reader on my Linux

> > box. It complains about the file being corrupted.

> >

> > With kpdf, I can see the file but I get the dollowing error message

> >

> > 	Error (0): PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table...

> > 	Error (1432): Missing 'endstream'

> > 	Error (1432): Missing 'endstream'

> >

> > With kghostview, I can see but it also complains about an XREF problem.

> >

> > So... What version of reportlabs are you using?... there may be a bug

> > here!

> >

> >

> > Cheers,

> > 	François

>

> OK I have re-run everything from the top and documented it  ....

>

> Windows XP fully updated,

> Unzipped from reportlab 2.0

>

> I can confirm that abode reader can view the zapfdingbats fonts in the

> standardfonts_winansi.pdf all AOK

>

> Ran the following test code on XP  ...

>

>

>

> #!/usr/bin/env python

> # -*- coding: iso8859_1 -*-

>

> from reportlab.lib.units import inch

> from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import A4

> import datetime, ConfigParser, os

> from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas

>

> from reportlab.pdfgen.canvas import Canvas

> c = Canvas('temp.pdf')

> c.setFont("ZapfDingbats", 20)

> y = 700

>

> line = u'\u0034 test'

> print line

> uniLine = line

> #uniLine = unicode(line, 'latin-1')

> c.drawString(100, y, uniLine.strip())

>

> c.save()

>

>

>

> XP adobe reader reads black squares ... as before

> moved it to my Linux system via samba,

>

> but now Linux adobe reader & KPDF both read black squares where as

> previously KPDF rendered correctly.

>

> No matter what I try I cannot get even KPDF to render correctly. I have

> been playing with the code but comparing it with the code from previous

> emails it is effectively the same.

>

> This is strange ?

>

> I guess the question is - if you guys execute the above on your XP machines

> can your adobe reader see it ? (Please don't discount my codeing ! -

> unicode & utf-8 are all new to me)

>

> If not what code on your machines successfully generates a zapfdingbats

> character ?

>


Ahh answered my own question - looking at stdfonts.py


:)







> From an earlier email - the zapfdingbats characters are held as purely

> 'ascii' (probarbly wrong word) values in the PDF, my XP adobe reader can

> read standardfonts_winansi.pdf including zapfdingbats all AOK so it must

> know the font and the render the 'ascii' value AOK.

>

> So ... the problem is my PDF or the way I am generating my PDF not the

> adobe reader ?