[reportlab-users] TableStyle "FONTNAME"

[Jason Craig]

Robin Becker wrote:

> 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"))

Note that "Helvetica" is usually another name for "Arial".

--Jason