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

[Thomas Kremmel]

oh you are right.. thats certainly the problem and i just realized that on
the development server I'm loading it from the file system.

My URL that I m using for the production server is absolute, it looks like
this:
http://localhost/my_project/media/fonts/<http://localhost/aeon_infrastructure/media/fonts/>
calibri.ttf

Thus I try to load it from the file system. Actually its my first time
deploying a project on an apache server and I'm kind of confused :D
Now I'm wondering where apache is looking after it when I try to get it from
the file system. Obviously apache does not find the file, since I'm getting
a file not found error:

Tried it like this:
pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont('Calibri',
'my_project/media/fonts/calibri.ttf'))

or

 pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont('Calibri-Bold',
'media/fonts/calibri-bold.ttf'))

But anyway, thats more a server question, than a reportlab question ;-)

Thanks guys for the prompt help.. and thanks for this amazing library!!


2010/3/25 Andy Robinson <andy at reportlab.com>


> On 25 March 2010 11:00, Thomas Kremmel <thomasspin at gmail.com> 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:

>

> I never even realised we could load fonts from URLs!  I guess we're

> doing some transformation on the URLs.

>

> Is your production MEDIA_URL relative, or on some other domain

> ("http://media.mydomain.com/fonts") ?

>

> Also, out of curiosity, if the fonts are on the same box, why don't

> you load them from the file system to save all the HTTP negotiation?

>

> - Andy

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