[reportlab-users] registering fonts

[Carl Karsten]

Roberto Alsina wrote:

> 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 :-)   


http://code.google.com/p/rst2pdf/source/browse/trunk/rst2pdf/findfonts.py

     flist=["/usr/share/fonts","/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts"]
     f=findFont(sys.argv[1])
     if not f:
         f=findTTFont(sys.argv[1])
     if f:
         print f
     else:
         fn,pos=guessFont(sys.argv[1])
         f=findFont(fn)
         if not f:
             f=findTTFont(fn)


awesome.

Any objections to this code being rolled into Reportlab?

Reportlab, any objections to this code being used in 
reportlab/pdfbase/pdfmetrics.py?  (guessing the MIT thing may require 
something...  no clue.)

Carl K