[reportlab-users] Problem with embedded font, help needed

[Robin Becker]

Roberto Alsina wrote:

> Hello, this is slightly offtopic because I can't reproduce this problem using 

> only reportlab, but I am at my wits end and this is the only list I know with 

> people who know about PDF files :-(

> 

> Basically: on some RARE occasions, which I can't isolate yet, sphinx+rst2pdf 

> will produce, via reportlab, a PDF with a font that's not embedded correctly, 

> and then the file has no visible text in it.

> 

> I hve uploaded one such file here: 

> http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/static/rusty.alt.pdf

> 

> Anyone has access to a preflight tool that may tell me what's wrong with it?

> 

> I have processed every most parts of that file producing decent output, but 

> when it's all done at once, this happens.

> 

> Thanks in advance for any help.

> 

well opening directly with Acrobat Reader gives an error about 
AAAAA+DejaVuSans..... so it's broken.
-- 
Robin Becker