[reportlab-users] True Type fonts - newbie question

Glenn Linderman v+python at g.nevcal.com
Mon May 16 16:26:12 EDT 2011


On 5/16/2011 2:33 AM, Robin Becker wrote:

> The getAvailableFonts is actually wrong and is being stupid. It turns

> out that it defers to PdfDoc.getAvailableFonts which is also stupid

> and wrong. Both of these ought to be named something like getUsedFonts

> or getActualizedFonts or somesuch. Turns out that except for the

> standard 14 we don't internalize the fonts until they're actually used.

>

> Try the script below and you should actually see the font end up in

> the list. I think availableFonts should refer to those that have been

> registered even if not yet used.


OK, with this information, I whacked at the program and got it working.

Any clues when there'll be a Python 3 version of reportlab?
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