[reportlab-users] PDFs generated by ReportLab not printing

[King Simon-NFHD78]

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

> From: King Simon-NFHD78 

> Sent: 22 May 2009 15:15

> To: 'Support list for users of Reportlab software'

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

> not printing

> 

> In case anyone is still following this thread, the error 

> sounds suspiciously similar to the one described at 

> http://pdfsharp.s3.bizhat.com/pdfsharp-ftopic339.html, which 

> suggests that for Unicode fonts, you have to set the font 

> encoding to Unicode. I'll see if I can figure out how to do that.


I'm still confused. As far as I can tell, TrueType fonts contain their
own encoding information, so there should be no need to specify an
encoding.

My simple PDF contains this:

% Font Arial Unicode MS subset 0
<< /BaseFont /AAAAAA+ArialUnicodeMS
 /FirstChar 0
 /FontDescriptor 6 0 R
 /LastChar 127
 /Name /F2+0
 /Subtype /TrueType
 /ToUnicode 4 0 R
 /Type /Font
 /Widths [ 1000 
 1000 
 1000
 ... Etc

There is no /Encoding key in there, but I've no idea whether there
should be.