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

[Thomas Kremmel]

Thanks for your answer.
I'm using win xp and I can download the font via the web-browser. Thus it
seems that the apache does serve the file correctly. At least via the
web-browser.

2010/3/25 Roberto Alsina <ralsina at netmanagers.com.ar>


> 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?

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