[reportlab-users] PDFs generated by ReportLab not printing

[King Simon-NFHD78]

Robin Becker wrote:

> King Simon-NFHD78 wrote:

> ........

> > Hi Robin,

> > 

> > I can't get Acrobat Reader 9 on Linux (Ubuntu 8.10) to 

> convert the 'Some

> > text in Arial Unicode MS' PDF to Postscript using "acroread

> > -toPostScript <my_pdf_file>" - it just displays the 

> filename followed by

> > a colon, with no error message, and generates no postscript 

> file. The

> > same command on a completely different PDF generated a 

> PostScript file

> > as expected.

> > 

> > Do you have a copy of Acrobat Reader on Linux that you can 

> check this

> > with?

> > 

> > Thanks,

> > 

> > Simon

> >.......

> my colleague tried and got problems with your test pdf. We 

> tried with some of 

> our other pdfs using vera.ttf etc and those work.

> 

> I tried the conversion on win xp and that also fails.

> 

> Can you post the script that was used to make the pdf?


Phew - I was beginning to think that I was going mad. Here's the script:

#------------

from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas 
from reportlab.pdfbase import pdfmetrics 
from reportlab.pdfbase.ttfonts import TTFont 
pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont('Arial Unicode MS', 'ARIALUNI.ttf')) 

c = canvas.Canvas('arialtest.pdf') 
c.setFont('Arial Unicode MS', 32) 
c.drawString(10, 150, u"Some text in Arial Unicode MS") 
c.showPage() 
c.save() 

#------------


I think the PDF I posted was generated with ReportLab 2.2, but I've
tested it with 2.3 and the problem still remains.

Simon