[reportlab-users] extra TTF font borks script

[Reed L. O'Brien]

> Reed L. O'Brien wrote:
>> It doesn't work with anything in the reportlab/font directory.  Is  
>> there a better way to send a PDF through a cgi script other that  
>> getpdfdata()?
>> What I am getting:
>> [Sun Oct 29 11:43:48 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Traceback (most
> y",
>> line 459, in Reference, referer: http://http://someurl
>> [Sun Oct 29 11:43:48 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]     raise  
>> ValueError, "redefining named object: "+repr(name), referer:  
>> http://http://someurl
>> [Sun Oct 29 11:43:48 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] ValueError:  
>> redefining named object: 'toUnicodeCMap:AAAAAA+Verdana-Bold',  
>> referer: http://someurl
>> What I am doing (it works with Helvetica):
>> import cgi, sys
>> from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
>> from reportlab.lib.units import inch
>> from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import letter
>> from reportlab.pdfbase import pdfmetrics
>> from reportlab.pdfbase.ttfonts import TTFont
>> pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont('Verdana', 'verdana.ttf'))
>> def go(c):'''draws the images and text'''
>>     c.drawImage(footer, 4 * inch, .375 * inch, width=None,  
>> height=None)
>>     c.drawImage(sig, 2.75 * inch, 3.5 * inch, width=None,  
>> height=None)
>>     c.drawImage(sidebar, .5 * inch, .375 * inch, width=2 * inch,  
>> height=8.625 * inch)
>>     c.drawImage(header, .5 * inch, 9.325 * inch, width=7.375 *  
>> inch, height=1.375 * inch)
>>     to = c.beginText() # instantiate a text object
>>     to.setTextOrigin(2.75 * inch, 8 * inch)
>>     to.setFont("Verdana", 10)
>>     for line in txt:
>>         to.textLine("%s" % line)
>>     c.drawText(to)
>> c = canvas.Canvas('/tmp/temp.pdf', pagesize=(8.5 * inch, 11 * inch))
>> go(c)
>> c.showPage()
>> c.save()
>> print c.getpdfdata()
>> sys.exit(0)
>> ~reed
>
On Oct 29, 2006, at 2:03 PM, Robin Becker wrote:

> Does your python get invoked with the -u option (I am assuming this  
> is win32 of some kind because of the font name verdana).
> -- 
> Robin Becker

No, it is on Linux2 (Fedora Core 3).  The verdana font was bought for  
a previous project.
I am not sure if I need to innvoke with -u flag.  I will look at that  
and apache to find out and try it.
It works fine with built in fonts, but not any that are registered. I  
have thought about storing the file in a StringIO object...
I don't know if that would help.

~reed