[reportlab-users] TableStyle "FONTNAME"

[Robin Becker]

shawn a wrote:

> I have the following code

> 

> 	s.append(TableStyle([

> 	('GRID',(0,1),(-1,-1),1,colors.black),

> 	('FONTNAME',(0,0),(-1,-1),'Arial')

> 	]))

> 

> Im getting a key error

> 

> ...........

>     return findFontAndRegister(fontName)

>   File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\reportlab\pdfbase\pdfmetrics.py",

> line 659, in findFontAndRegister

>     face = getTypeFace(fontName)

>   File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\reportlab\pdfbase\pdfmetrics.py",

> line 618, in getTypeFace

>     return _typefaces[faceName]

> KeyError: 'Arial'

> 

> Is there a list of the fonts that reportlab registers for you along

> with the string names?

> 

> thanks,

> -Shawn

.......
The standard 14 fonts are all listed in reportlab/pdfbase/_fontdata.py;
standardFonts = (
	'Courier', 'Courier-Bold', 'Courier-Oblique', 'Courier-BoldOblique',
	'Helvetica', 'Helvetica-Bold', 'Helvetica-Oblique', 'Helvetica-BoldOblique',
	'Times-Roman', 'Times-Bold', 'Times-Italic', 'Times-BoldItalic',
	'Symbol','ZapfDingbats')

These are the fonts which are built in to Acrobat Reader. You can register fonts 
like Arial using code like

from reportlab.pdfbase import pdfmetrics, ttfonts
pdfmetrics.registerFont(ttfonts.TTFont("Arial", "path_to_arial.ttf"))
-- 
Robin Becker