[reportlab-users] ZapfDingbats icon problem

[Dave S]

On Saturday 25 November 2006 11:18, Andy Robinson wrote:

> > However XP Adobe Reader just renders it as black squares. I have attached

> > my temp.pdf - can you guys read it in XP ?

>

> Yes, looks fine to me.

>

> - Andy


Ahh the solution :):):)

Having 'borrowed' some code from stdfonts.py, if I use the following it 
generates 4 x chars that I can add to strings that works a treat in XP :)

tick = chr(52).decode('ZapfDingbatsEncoding').encode('utf8')
cross = chr(54).decode('ZapfDingbatsEncoding').encode('utf8')
upArrow = chr(115).decode('ZapfDingbatsEncoding').encode('utf8')
downArrow = chr(116).decode('ZapfDingbatsEncoding').encode('utf8')

Many many thanks for all your help

Dave

PS Although I am less than well versed in utf8 and unicode (understatement) I 
have developed a general library based on reportlab to help automatically 
generate user and reference manuals from embedded system config files.

This may be a bit ninche - but if you want the scripts let me know