[reportlab-users] Bug when importing TrueType fonts with names containing blanks

[Robin Becker]

Dinu Gherman wrote:

> Hi,

> 

> I'm getting an error when trying to use TrueType fonts containing

> blanks in their font names. See the following traceback:

> 

........

> 

> I can workaround this with the following simple minded patch to

> reportlab/pdfbase/ttfonts.py, but I'm not sure if this is a proper

> solution:

> 

>     --- ttfonts0.py    2007-11-29 15:43:25.000000000 +0100

>     +++ ttfonts.py    2007-11-29 15:45:29.000000000 +0100

>     @@ -478,6 +478,7 @@

>                      names[nameId] = N

>                      nameCount -= 1

>                      if nameCount==0: break

>     +        names[6] = names[6].replace(" ", "-") # FIX(?) DCG

>              psName = names[6]

>              if not psName:

>                  raise TTFError, "Could not find PostScript font name"

> 

....

I have a strong feeling that the font postscript names aren't supposed to 
contain blanks I think because they're supposed to be simple tokens in ps or 
somesuch. I'm not an expert on TTF or postscript so perhaps someone else should 
enlighten us.

It shouldn't matter for us as we're subsetting anyhow, but presumably the font 
author wants his font name as specified.
-- 
Robin Becker