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

[Roberto Alsina]

On Monday 24 August 2009 11:32:38 Peter wrote:

> > 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 :-)

>

> Was that using StringIO or cStringIO? It might also be Python version

> or even OS dependent...


It was a StringIO which I think uses cStringIO if it's available, and python 
2.6.

Anyway, it's not worth the problem even to debug unless you really, really, 
really want to avoid creating a tempfile (say, if you are in google app 
engine).

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