[reportlab-users] PDFs generated by ReportLab not printing

[King Simon-NFHD78]

> -----Original Message-----

> From: reportlab-users-bounces at reportlab.com 

> [mailto:reportlab-users-bounces at reportlab.com] On Behalf Of 

> Roberto Alsina

> Sent: 22 May 2009 13:49

> To: Support list for users of Reportlab software

> Subject: Re: [reportlab-users] PDFs generated by ReportLab 

> not printing

> 

> King Simon-NFHD78 writes:

> 

> > As an aside - how do people generally deal with this problem: Our

> > application generates reports which can contain arbitrary 

> user-defined

> > strings. How do we go about selecting a font for use in the 

> report? We

> > provide a user interface so that the user can select their 

> own font, but

> > we'd also like to select a reasonable default whenever possible. We

> > chose Arial Unicode MS as the default (when we detect that it is

> > installed), since it seems to be able to display most Unicode

> > characters. I'd be interested to know if anyone has any better

> > solutions?

> 

> You could ship DejaVu Sans. Not full unicode coverage (no 

> thai, for example) 

> but pretty good, and free, and you are allowed to embed it.

> 


That looks interesting. The Sans-only package is only 367k as well,
which doesn't seem too much to add to an installer. I don't know how I
missed the DejaVu fonts when I was researching this before.

Thanks for the suggestion,

Simon