[reportlab-users] registering font does not work after switching media server

[Roberto Alsina]

On Thursday 25 March 2010 08:00:09 Thomas Kremmel wrote:

> Hi,

> 

> I m developing a django app using reportlab. Till now I just used the

> django development server to serve all media files, including some ttf

> fonts to be registered by reportlab. I do it like this:

> 

> pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont('Calibri', settings.MEDIA_URL +

> 'fonts/calibri.ttf'))

> 

> That worked fine till I switched from the django development server to

> apache production server. Now I'm getting the error:

> 

> TTFError at /accounting/export/do/

> 

> Not a TrueType font: version=0x3C21444F

> 

> 

> This is strange since it does work with the development server and

> using the apache server i get an error from reportlab.. humm. this

> error should not be related to the server, but somehow it seems to

> be...

> 

> 

> ah yes.. The links to the fonts seem to be correc


If you are using a red hat variant or clone, and the font is outside /var/www 
it may be that SELinux is not letting you read the file?