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

[Roberto Alsina]

On Tuesday 25 August 2009 09:22:23 Marius Gedminas wrote:

> It would be interesting.

>

> The first thing that comes into mind is that maybe you're writing the

> contents of the StringIO object into a file object opened in text mode

> on a Windows system, but I'm sure you would notice something like that.


Nope, all Linux all the time here ;-)

Here's the change that "fixed" this (see pdfbuilder.py), 

http://code.google.com/p/rst2pdf/source/detail?r=883

and I am pretty sure now the problem is that I am not using StringIO 
correctly.

Before I did this:

sio=StringIO('')
[create the PDF in sio]
self.output=unicode(sio.getvalue(),'utf-8','ignore') #This looks fishy!

And here's what now works:

tmpname=tempfile.mktemp()
[create the PDF in tmpname]
self.output=open(tmpname).read()

I am now guessing I am decoding sio.getvalue() to unicode but shouldn't.

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