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

Dinu Gherman gherman at darwin.in-berlin.de
Thu Nov 29 12:36:12 EST 2007


Rich Shepard:


> 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.


We speak about font names as fields in the binary .ttf files,
not file names.

Dinu



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