[reportlab-users] registerFont stays how long in memory? what s the best place to register a font?

[Steve Romanow]

I think that Dark Garden is used on one of the sample apps on the RL
website or contrib folders.

On 4/19/10, Thomas Kremmel <thomasspin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Andy.

>

> The next thing I will do is switching to another font. Just to eliminate the

> possibility that it has to do with the font.

>

>>>Also, when you got the DarkGardenMK.afm error, were you actually

>>>trying to use that font?

>

> No I did not. For me it seems like the DarkGardenMK is getting loaded if

> everything else fails. Actually I did not noticed that DarkGardenMK.afm

> exists till rl wanted to load it. And obviously it seems that sometimes it

> is either successfully loaded or not loaded at all. For me it seems as I

> already said, that DarkGardenMK is somehow a fallback szenario for rl.

>

>>>Personally I think there might be something up with the disk.  Is it

>>>definitely a single server you control, or are you using some

>>>clustered environment?   If a single box, then perhaps the disk area

>>>holding the fonts is causing problems.

>

> The problem is that I do not control the server directly. A friend of mine

> controls it.. But I will try to switch to webfaction in the next days. Just

> to eliminate the possibility that it has something to do with the servers

> disk.

>

> Will let you know if this helps.

> I would love web development if everything just would work like on my local

> machine ;-)

>

>

>

> 2010/4/19 Andy Robinson <andy at reportlab.com>

>

>> On 19 April 2010 19:06, Thomas Kremmel <thomasspin at gmail.com> wrote:

>> > Can somebody please post a source of a working calibri font which I

>> > could

>> > try out?

>> > Thank you

>> I don't have that one, but it seems highly unlikely to me that a

>> corrupt font would work intermittently.

>>

>> Are you able to switch to another similar-looking font - you can buy

>> almost anything from fonts.com, or copy from a Windows fonts directory

>> - for a couple of days to eliminate this?

>>

>> Also, when you got the DarkGardenMK.afm error, were you actually

>> trying to use that font?

>>

>> Personally I think there might be something up with the disk.  Is it

>> definitely a single server you control, or are you using some

>> clustered environment?   If a single box, then perhaps the disk area

>> holding the fonts is causing problems.

>>

>> Have you defragged?  I know they say Linux doesn't need it, but the

>> laptop I type on now started crashing intermittently (and often) a

>> month ago, while passing all tests.   I defragged it and it's been

>> rock solid ever since.

>>

>>

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>> Andy

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