[reportlab-users] Problem with Type1 fonts and gs.

[Mike Bernson]

I am having a problem creating a pdf that will print.

I am running linux (ubuntu 9.04) with reportlab version 2.3 installed
by apt-get. The code look as close to the example in the doc as I can
get.

The file is type 1 file from gs.

/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n019003l.pfb: PostScript Type 1 font program data
/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n019003l.afm: ASCII font metrics

The output from pdfinfo:
name                                 type              emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
Helvetica                            Type 1            no  no  no       2  0
NimbusSanL-Regu                      Type 1            yes no  no       5  0

both acroread and xpdf can both handle the font.

If on run gs on the pdf I get the following error:

mike at mike-laptop:~/src/myranch/report/report/reportgen 308> gs test.pdf
GPL Ghostscript 8.64 (2009-02-03)
Copyright (C) 2009 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Processing pages 1 through 1.
Page 1
Loading NimbusSanL-Regu font from /var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts/n019003l.pfb... 3842416 1896651 10232952 8927311 3 done.
Error: /typecheck in --run--
Operand stack:
    --nostringval--   --dict:8/17(L)--   F2   32   --dict:9/9(L)--   --dict:9/9(L)--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   Encoding
Execution stack:
    %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1862   1   3   %oparray_pop   1861   1   3   %oparray_pop   1845   1 
   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   1   1   --nostringval--   %for_pos_int_continue   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   %array_continue   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push 
--nostringval--   %loop_continue   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
    --dict:1147/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:1/20(G)--   --dict:74/200(L)--   --dict:74/200(L)--   --dict:106/127(ro)(G)--   --dict:278/300(ro)(G)--   --dict:22/25(L)--   --dict:4/6(L)--   --dict:25/40(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
GPL Ghostscript 8.64: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

Here is the code that created the pdf:
import os
import reportlab
from reportlab.pdfbase import pdfmetrics
from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas

folder =  '/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts'
afmFile = os.path.join(folder, 'n019003l.afm')
pfbFile = os.path.join(folder, 'n019003l.pfb')
justFace = pdfmetrics.EmbeddedType1Face(afmFile, pfbFile)
faceName = 'NimbusSanL-Regu'
pdfmetrics.registerTypeFace(justFace)
justFont = pdfmetrics.Font(faceName,
                            faceName,
                            'WinAnsiEncoding')
pdfmetrics.registerFont(justFont)

c = canvas.Canvas('test.pdf')
c.setFont(faceName, 32)
c.drawString(10, 150, 'This should be in')
c.drawString(10, 100, faceName)
c.showPage()
c.save()