[reportlab-users] registering fonts

[Roberto Alsina]

Carl Karsten writes:


> I am finding myself trying to write generic code to register fonts.

> 

> Looking at reportlab/pdfbase/pdfmetrics.py I see much the same code, but it 

> depends on external stuff (system wide config files, editing

> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/reportlab/rl_config.py, and maybe setting an 

> environment var, but I couldn't get that to work.)

> 

> Or maybe I am missing something.

> 

> Here is what I am hoping for:  my app that uses reportlab these 2 fonts:

> 

> /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n019004l.afm which is part of 

> http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/all/gsfonts/filelist

> 

> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf from

> http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/ttf-freefont

> 

> My app has a local config file that holds things like database/user/pw - great 

> place to store path's to fonts

> either the font's and dirs and fonts used:

> 

> fonts=['NimbusSanL-Bold','FreeSans']

> fontdirs=['/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/',

> '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/']

> 

> or the full pathnames:

> 

> fontfiles=['/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n019004l.afm',

> '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf']

> 

> Then my app can have some generic code that registers those fonts.  I am 

> guessing most apps that use reportlab need this, so it would be great if I could 

> just pass those lists into some reporlab code.

> 

> So, does anything like this exist?  If not, I'll be happy to code it up and 

> submit a patch - anything I should know?


There is generic font embedding stuff in rst2pdf 
(http://rst2pdf.googlecode.com), where it will try to find a font by name 
using a variety of mechanisms.

Can't give you more details right now because I'm at the beach but look for 
font stuff it should be easy to find :-)