[reportlab-users] python renderPM.py fails with font errors

[Gregory Tappero]

Hello,

The pfb were present and I manage to fix it by rerunning pip install reportlab.
The only differences were from the packages installed in the
environment (libjpeg, freetype2?)
Quite strange but I can finally output my pdfs again :)


On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> wrote:

> Not sure exactly what is installed by ubuntu, but can you say how your

> project/reportlab was installed?

>

> The T1 error is normally raised because the standard font pfb files required

> to match the adobe builtin fonts are missing.

>

> When using python to install reportlab the setup.py script tries to download

> a zipfile containing the pfb files and put them in the right place.

> Certainly those files are present in the ARCH linux package (which I have

> used), but I don't know about other distros.

>

> For various reasons the graphics canvas is set up to use Helvetica (standard

> adobe) by default and that in turn implies that we need the standard fonts

> even if in the end they don't get used.

>

> Can you locate the reportlab installed files? If yes then check the

> reprotlab/fonts folder to see if it contains _ai_____.pfb. If not then

> download the relevant files here

> http://www.reportlab.com/ftp/fonts/pfbfer.zip and try to put them into the

> reportlab/fonts folder. Then re-run the renderPM.py script as a test to see

> if all is well.

>

> On 26/01/2011 21:28, Gregory Tappero wrote:

>>

>> Hello reportlab users,

>>

>> Since I installed ubuntu 10.04 on a brand new computer and tried to

>> deploy my python project using reportlab a new kind of error arose:

>>

>> RenderPMError: Can't setFont(ARIAL) missing the T1 files?

>> Originally<type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>: TTEncoding instance has

>> no attribute 'vector'

>>

>> After some digging I read in the doc that  I should run renderPM.test

>> to see if everyting was ok:

>>

> ........gument 2 must

>>

>> be string, not None

>>

>>  I could use ttf fonts without troubles before that.

>>

>> Any ideas on what could be wrong ?

>> Thank you for your help.

>

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