[reportlab-users] Handling TrueType fonts not allowing subsetting

[Dinu Gherman]

Andy Robinson:


> My first instinct is to add

> - a function which can grab and install any font you pick from the

> Google directory in a reportlab/fonts

> - a command to do the same, installed by the setup script

> - a command to generate a test PDF showing off all the glyps and doing

> the metrics.


Sounds cool! google.com/fonts has a mechanism for downloading a zip archive of a specified font collection, but I'm not sure it would be easy/desireable to hijiack it. Otherwise you can probably always host a cloned repo on your site and download from there. 

Saying that, I wonder if a simple general font installer would be a nice to have thingy on PyPI as a tool to install fonts from multiple sources into some configurable local place?

Regards,

Dinu