[reportlab-users] Using Mac and TrueType fonts with renderPM

[Ka-Ping Yee]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Andy Robinson wrote:

> I'm pretty sure you don't need a Type 1 font to render a TrueType one;

> my colleague Robin should be able to verify what's needed tomorrow or on

> Tuesday - I don't have access to a Mac at the moment.


It looks like you don't need the Type 1 font for pdfgen, but you do
need it for renderPM.

>

> Can you execute reportlab\graphics\renderPM.py


This fails with the message:

    Warn: Can't find .pfb for face 'Times-Roman'

The traceback is:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "graphics/renderPM.py", line 663, in <module>
        test()
      File "graphics/renderPM.py", line 643, in test
        drawToFile(drawing,fullpath,fmt=k)
      File "graphics/renderPM.py", line 591, in drawToFile
        c = drawToPMCanvas(d, dpi=dpi, bg=bg, configPIL=configPIL, showBoundary=showBoundary)
      File "graphics/renderPM.py", line 577, in drawToPMCanvas
        draw(d, c, 0, 0, showBoundary=showBoundary)
      File "graphics/renderPM.py", line 49, in draw
        R.draw(renderScaledDrawing(drawing), canvas, x, y, showBoundary=showBoundary)
      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/reportlab/graphics/renderbase.py", line 200, in draw
        self.initState(x,y)  #this is the push()
      File "graphics/renderPM.py", line 86, in initState
        self.applyState()
      File "graphics/renderPM.py", line 80, in applyState
        self._canvas.setFont(s['fontName'], s['fontSize'])
      File "graphics/renderPM.py", line 358, in setFont
        _setFont(self._gs,fontName,fontSize)
      File "graphics/renderPM.py", line 238, in _setFont
        raise RenderPMError, "Can't setFont(%s) missing the T1 files?\nOriginally %s: %s" % (fontName,s1,s2)
    __main__.RenderPMError: Can't setFont(Times-Roman) missing the T1 files?
    Originally <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: makeT1Font() argument 2 must be string, not None

See this:

http://bioinf.scri.ac.uk/lp/downloads/programs/genomediagram/renderPM_help.txt

If i download pfbfer.zip and unpack it it in an appropriate place,
then renderPM.py generates five images and then stops because i
don't have the rlextra package.


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