[reportlab-users] ttfonts.py patch

[Robin Becker]

Jerry Casiano wrote:


>> .........

>> I don't think I'm worried about the accessing so much as whether you can 

>> actually use those fonts in some real sense. Do you have some sort of test to 

>> produce a PDF with an alphabet for each one for example? That would help to see 

>> if the change above actually did more good than harm.

> 

> Ah, I should have considered that, well for the one font I sent it seems

> to have no side effects. See attached pdf.

> 

> I'm looking through a ~80mb pdf file right now to see how others are

> affected. Well, I don't see any obvious problems. What should I be

> looking for? missing glyphs? 

> 

> Because if it's missing glyphs then I'm not sure I can confirm or deny

> anything as some of the crappier fonts are missing glyphs all over the

> place anyways. :-(

.......

I don't think missing glyphs is a problem, but any exceptions accessing well 
known glyphs could be a problem. If you've actually generated a pdf then 
probably that's pretty good.
-- 
Robin Becker