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

[Roberto Alsina]

On Sunday 23 August 2009 19:32:48 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.


After three days of losing hair, I fixed it. And it **may** be useful for 
someone else in the future:

DO NOT TRY TO SAVE A PDF TO A STRINGIO.

It looks like it works, it gives no errors, and then it **may** strip the high 
bits of some pieces of the file, breaking it in unpredictable ways.

That's all :-)

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