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

[Andy Robinson]

>     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.


Thanks, we'll look into all this.

This is a bug  in our tests - rlextra is the commercial package, which, 
of course, we build and test all the time alongside reportlab, and our 
daily process doesn't include a test that reportlab's suite runs OK 
without it.

- Andy