[reportlab-users] ttf "fallback".. is it supported somehow?

[Robin Becker]

Gábor Farkas wrote:

> hi,

> 

> is it somehow possible, to specify multiple ttf files for a paragraph,

> and reportlab would use by default the first ttf, and if some glyph is

> not found in it,

> then it would try to find those glyphs in the second font etc? or some

> other way?

> 

> my problem is that i do not have one single TTF font which covers all

> the characters i need to

> enter into the PDF file. but i have a collection of TTF files which

> could together cover it.

> 

> basically i'd like to do in a PDF what  web-browsers do when

> displaying a html-page.

> 

> thanks,

> gabor


art present we only have fallbacks for the T1 fonts. The truetype fonts have a 
very different layout model which involves subsetting etc etc. I suppose we 
could add an extra layer above that and create a multi-ttf font type which would 
do as you suggest, but not right now.
-- 
Robin Becker