[reportlab-users] [Bitbucket] Issue #22: add '~/.fonts' (for user fonts on Ubuntu) to TTFSearchPath (rptlab/reportlab)

[Robin Becker]

On 22/02/2014 06:17, Ian Wood wrote:

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> New issue 22: add '~/.fonts' (for user fonts on Ubuntu) to TTFSearchPath

> https://bitbucket.org/rptlab/reportlab/issue/22/add-fonts-for-user-fonts-on-ubuntu-to

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> Ian Wood:

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> Probably could be in search paths for other types of font also..

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I am trying to avoid answering all these issues on bitbucket so I'm copying 
reportlab-users to give others a chance to weigh in.

I have no particular feeling about this particular entry. Since python doesn't 
recognize the ~ as special just using that character would not work.

The question sould probably be re-phrased as can you do add 
os.path.join(os.environ.get('HOME','/dev/null'),'.fonts') to one or more search 
paths?

I'm not an expert at all the places where font paths can be specified; 
presumably there might be FONTPATH environment variables as well.
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Robin Becker