[reportlab-users] CPU Loop in graphics caused by uppercase font filename

[Roger]

I an a relatively new user and have been using the Reportlab 2.0 
graphics package to produce vertical bar charts.  Yesterday I tried to 
change the default font from Times-Roman to Helvetica by passing a 
fontName parameter (on Windows/XP):
    lab = Label(fontName='Helvetica')

This caused a 100% CPU loop somewhere in the graphics package.  By 
trying various fonts, I found that I could specify Times-Italic and 
Times-Bold without problem and the difference was that 
pdfbase/_fontdata.py (~line 52) specified lowercase font filenames 
(_a______) and my filenames for Helvetica were uppercase (_A______.PFB 
and _A______.PFM).  Renaming the font files to use a lowercase "a" 
solved the CPU loop problem.

In addition to Helvetica, the case problem also exists for 
Helvetica-Bold, Helvetica-Italic, Symbol, and ZapDingBats.  I can easily 
rename the files to fix the problem, the problem seems to be in finding 
the correct fonts to download.  Although I couldn't find the reference 
this morning, I recall the docs pointed me to www.adobe.com as a source 
for downloading the PFB/PFM fonts to be copied to the Reportlab/fonts 
directory.  I wasn't been able to find the fonts on the Adobe website 
and ended up copying the fonts from a Acrobat 5 installation on an older 
laptop.  The newer versions of Acrobat do not seem to have the fonts.

For the record, can someone point me to the documentation on how I 
should have acquired the correctly named fonts?

Roger