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

[Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 09:28:26AM -0300, Roberto Alsina wrote:

> 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!


Precisely.  You take a binary string and randomly remove bits of it
(those substrings that aren't valid UTF-8 sequences).  Don't do that.


> And here's what now works:

> 

> tmpname=tempfile.mktemp()

> [create the PDF in tmpname]

> self.output=open(tmpname).read()


Assuming this is Python 2.x, you get an 8-bit string from file.read(),
so the StringIO-equivalent of

  self.output = sio.getvalue()

should also work.


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


Yes.

Marius Gedminas
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