[reportlab-users] Handling TrueType fonts not allowing subsetting

[Dinu Gherman]

Hi,

I've stumbled for the first time over a TrueType font, that doesn't 
allow subsetting, see traceback below. Strange enough a thing to 
do... Does anybody know a workaround? Maybe if only including the 
whole font without subsetting?

BTW, this is on Py 2.7.5, RL, 2.7, Mac OS X 10.6.8.

Thanks,

Dinu


$ python test.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 540, in <module>
    registerTrueTypeFont("FluxMedium", "/Fonts/truetype/flux1.ttf")
  File "test.py", line 108, in registerTrueTypeFont
    font = TTFont(name, path)
  File "/opt/lib/python2.7/site-packages/reportlab/pdfbase/ttfonts.py", line 1009, in __init__
    self.face = TTFontFace(filename, validate=validate, subfontIndex=subfontIndex)
  File "/opt/lib/python2.7/site-packages/reportlab/pdfbase/ttfonts.py", line 915, in __init__
    TTFontFile.__init__(self, filename, validate=validate, subfontIndex=subfontIndex)
  File "/opt/lib/python2.7/site-packages/reportlab/pdfbase/ttfonts.py", line 413, in __init__
    self.extractInfo(charInfo)
  File "/opt/lib/python2.7/site-packages/reportlab/pdfbase/ttfonts.py", line 544, in extractInfo
    raise TTFError, 'Font does not allow subsetting/embedding (%04X)' % fsType
reportlab.pdfbase.ttfonts.TTFError: Font does not allow subsetting/embedding (0104)