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

[Tim Roberts]

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


In ASCII, that hex sequence would be <!DO, which looks very much like
the <!DOCTYPE header you'd get from an HTML page.  Is it possible you
downloaded this font improperly?

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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