[reportlab-users] Reportlab 2.1 "Symbol" font problem on FC8
Robin Becker
robin at reportlab.com
Mon Dec 8 14:35:58 EST 2008
Gary Nutbeam wrote:
> 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.
2.1 now uses either utf8 strings or unicode
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Robin Becker
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