[reportlab-users] single font for document

[Robin Becker]

Something Special wrote:

> Hello,

>   how to globally(for current pdf only) set reportlab to use my font?

> 

> I mean, to allow encodings:

> 

> from reportlab.pdfbase import pdfmetrics

> from reportlab.pdfbase.ttfonts import TTFont

> from reportlab.lib.fonts import addMapping

> 

> pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont('Times',   'Times.ttf'))

> pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont('TimesI',  'TimesI.TTF'))

> pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont('TimesB',  'TimesBD.TTF'))

> pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont('TimesBI', 'TimesBI.TTF'))

> 

> addMapping('Times', 0, 0, 'Times')

> addMapping('Times', 0, 1, 'TimesI')

> addMapping('Times', 1, 0, 'TimesB')

> addMapping('Times', 1, 1, 'TimesBI')

> 

> But this seems to work for Paragraphs only - inside a table it shows

> black squares.

.....

The table elements use the canvas font so you need to set that up in a Table 
style or on the canvas.
-- 
Robin Becker