[reportlab-users] Micr font advice in reportlab

[J. R. Carroll]

Sending this backup to the listserv as a response - removing the image as
it was 'too large'.  My apologies if this gets double-posted.

-j

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 12:39 PM, J. R. Carroll <jrc.csus at gmail.com> wrote:


> Mike,

>

> Not sure, but if you are trying to get the 'funky P' shape you emailed

> about a few weeks back (as in the image I am attaching [EDIT] IMAGE

> REMOVED) - that's easy enough (but I'm assuming this is a different

> issue)...

>

> If you are trying to get a semi-colon, I don't believe E13-B as a standard

> has that (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MICR.svg and its parent

> article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_ink_character_recognition).

>  On inspection of the "demo" fonts available via the links you provided (as

> I would love to help *the Mr. Driscoll* of

> http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/, I can't afford the $$ to buy the

> legit font, no offense =P), they say they only omit 7. 8. and 9 with no

> mention of omitting a semi-colon.  Furthermore, inspecting the

> character/glyph map of the demo fonts show that there is no mapping for

> semi-colon key-strokes to a comp micr/e13b glyph.  If you are truly trying

> to get a semi-colon, my guess is that you'll have to switch fonts

> mid-string (or make your own glyph for the semi-colon - aka copy one over).

>

>

> If, for whatever reason you were trying to get the 'funky P' you mentioned

> in previous listserv questions, that symbol is mapped to the double-quote

> key (as the image I attached shows [EDIT] IMAGE REMOVED) - if this is an

> old/retired issue, then ignore this.

>

> -J

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> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Henning von Bargen <H.vonBargen at t-p.com>wrote:

>

>> Mike Driscoll wrote:

>>

>> > Hi,

>> >

>> > I posted about this issue a couple weeks ago and still haven't figured

>> it out,

>> > but I found some more information about the font. I am using a font

>> called

>> > MICRCheckPrixa. You can read about it here:

>> >

>> > http://www.micre13b.com/MICRCheckPrixa.pdf

>> >

>> > According to the spec, I should be able to use semi-colons to get one

>> of the

>> > funky MICR characters, however it seems to be getting eaten by

>> Reportlab

>> > somehow.

>> >

>> > Here's my code snippet:

>> >

>> > micr = '<font name="MICRCheckPrixa" style="regular" size=14>;%s; :%s:

>> > %s</font>'

>> > micr_line = micr % (self.check_data.check_number,

>> >                             self.check_data.bank_routing_number,

>> >                             self.check_data.bank_account_number)

>> >

>> > The colons turn into the correct character, but the semi-colons end up

>> looking

>> > blank. I have attached a quick example code and its output. You can

>> see the

>> > colons have been transformed per the spec, but the semi-colons are

>> eaten.

>> > There's a demo version of the font that has both the characters (I

>> think), so

>> > if anyone has any ideas or solutions, I'm all ears.

>> >

>>

>> You are wrong, the semi-colon is there!

>>

>> When I open your attached PDF file with Adobe Reader,

>> select the whole text and copy it into a text editor,

>> it is shown as

>> 123456; :1234567890: 1111111111

>>

>> Note the semi-colon after 123456.

>>

>> HTH

>> Henning

>>

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