[reportlab-users] Using <b></b> with TTFont

[Tim Roberts]

Riaan Bekker wrote:

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> As soon as I load the Arial font using the TTFont I lose the

> functionality to use the bold tags. How can I enable this to work ?

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Remember that, in TrueType, a bold font is a completely different font
file from the roman version.  You have to register the bold version, and
then tell Platypus how to find it.  Something like this should work, I
think:

from reportlab.lib import fonts
pdfmetrics.registerFont( TTFont( 'ArialBold', 'arialbd.ttf' ) )
fonts.addMapping( 'arial', 1, 0, 'ArialBold' )

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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.