[reportlab-users] RenderPM and TTF fonts

[Nizam Sayeed]

Robin,

I do have the Vera fonts installed. The font registers fine because I can
use it when rendering PDFs using renderPDF but when I try to use renderPM to
create a PNG, it gives the error about not being able to find T1 files. As
you said, renderPM does not support TrueType fonts yet.

I am currently using a Type 1 font with renderPM. But this wont work because
I display Unicode characters.From what I know, the Type 1 standard does not
support Unicode characters. And TrueType is not supported on renderPM. So
what other option is there?

Best regards,

Nizam

On 10/10/07, Robin Becker < robin at reportlab.com> wrote:

>

> Nizam Sayeed wrote:

> > I saw an example in the code and did this:

> >

> > pdfmetrics.registerFont( ttfonts.TTFont( "Vera", "Vera.ttf" ) )

> >

> > But I am getting this error:

> >

> > Can't setFont(Vera) missing the T1 files? Originally

> > exceptions.AttributeError: TTEncoding instance has no attribute 'vector'

> >

> > I guess it does not handle TTF fonts. So what is the solution when

> trying to

> > display unicode text using RenderPM? I had converted my TTF font to Type

> 1

> > using ttf2pt1 but it does not seem to preserve the unicode glyphs. I was

> > getting this error when trying to use the converted font:

> >

> > 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 10-12: invalid data

> >

> > What can I do? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

> >

> .......

>

> the renderPM extension does support true type fonts. I suspect something

> is

> wrong with your installation if there's no Vera font in the

> reportlab/fonts folder

>

> this script runs fine on my machine

>

> from reportlab.pdfbase import ttfonts, pdfmetrics

> f=ttfonts.TTFont('Vera','Vera.ttf')

> pdfmetrics.registerFont(f)

>

> My reportlab/fonts folder contains the following related files

>

> Vera.ttf

> VeraBI.ttf

> VeraBd.ttf

> VeraIt.ttf

> bitstream-vera-license.txt

>

>

>

>

> >>

> >> I have a quick question. Does RenderPM support TTF fonts? And if so,

> how

> >> do I do this? I wanted to use a unicode font because I will need to

> create

> >> charts that will display French text. Thanks.

> >>

> >> Best regards,

> >>

> >> -- Nizam Sayeed

> .......

>

>

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> Robin Becker

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