[reportlab-users] About Helvetica font

[adam hyde]

hi,

if you use Ghostscript after you have made the PDF it can force embed
all fonts


adam

On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 16:32 +0200, Enrique Comesaña Figueroa wrote:

> Hello,

> 

> I am trying to generate a PDF document with embedded fonts. I have no

> problem with other fonts but Helvetica. It always appear in the list

> of fonts in the properties document even if i do not use it.

> And if I try to embed it in a document which uses this font, reportlab

> generates it but do not embed the Helvetica font.

> 

> Can anyone help me?, If that is not possible, can anyone suggest me

> any other way to generate pdf  with ALL fonts embedded?

> 

> This is my python code:

> 

> from reportlab.pdfbase import pdfmetrics

> from reportlab.pdfbase.ttfonts import TTFont

> from reportlab.pdfgen.canvas import Canvas

> 

> justFace = pdfmetrics.EmbeddedType1Face('./Helvetica.afm', './Helvetica.pfb')

> pdfmetrics.registerTypeFace(justFace)

> justFont = pdfmetrics.Font('Helvetica','Helvetica','WinAnsiEncoding')

> pdfmetrics.registerFont(justFont)

> 

> c = Canvas('temp.pdf')

> c.setFont('Helvetica', 32)

> c.drawString(10, 150, "Some text")

> c.save()

> 

> 

> I have have the files Helvetica.afm and Helvetica.pfd in the same

> folder as the python script

> And pdffonts command return me this properties of the PDF document:

> 

> >>> pdffonts temp.pdf

> name                                 type              emb sub uni object ID

> ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------

> Helvetica                            Type 1            no  no  no       2  0

> 

> Many thanks,

> Enrique

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