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

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Robin Becker wrote:


> 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.


   TrueType font names have no spaces, e.g.,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/tt0155m_.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/tt0811m_.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/verdanab.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/verdanai.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/verdanaz.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/combull.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/arialbd.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/arialbi.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/lucon.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/tahoma.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/tt0156m_.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/tt0812m_.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/wasy10.ttf
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/cour.ttf

   Microsoft uses spaces in names, but they're the only ones AFAIK. It's
always a PITA to try to deal with those broken file and document names.

   Change the names to remove the spaces and problems go away.

Rich

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