[reportlab-users] Reportlab 2.1 "Symbol" font problem on FC8

[Gary Nutbeam]

I'm using Fedora Core 8 and Reportlab 2.1. When I try and print an Omega
(unicode 0057 or Decimal 87) I get a black square. It's odd because I
was trying other characters and after a question mark (U+003F) produced
black squares too. I did a search and couldn't find anything about this.
Also tried on a CentOS 5.1 system and had the same problem. The program
I'm porting worked fine with reportlab 1.x and CentOS 4.2. I'm either
missing something completely obvious, or something is broke? I've made
sure the adobe fonts are in the path searched by reportlab.

Thanks for any help.


>From my simple test program.


c.setFont("Symbol",12)
c.drawString(100,100, u'\u0057')

Gary.