[reportlab-users] Fonts - reportlab pics serif no matter what I do

[Andy Robinson]

Can you post a snippet of code showing us what you are doing to find,
register and use your fonts?

Thanks,

Andy

On 22 January 2014 23:01, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:

> I'm a relative newbie in the world of reportlab.

>

> The  issue I am having is that reportlab apparently does not like the fonts

> I have, and substitutes FreeSerif fonts instead of the FreeSans fonts I want

> to use.

>

> If I remove all of the FreeSerif fonts and just use the FreeSans fonts,

> Reportlab fails with an error that it can't find the font info for the

> family of fonts:

>

> Can't map determine family/bold/italic for freesans

>

> If I tell it to use serif fonts, the entire document is printed in serif

> just fine.

>

> If I tell it to use sansserif fonts, some of the document elements use

> sansserif and some use serif.

>

> I tried using my own fonts (DejaVu) and got the same font family error from

> reportlab/lib/fonts.py:

>

> Can't map determine family/bold/italic for dejavusans

>

> Where do I look?  The little bit I've been able to gather on that error is

> that maybe my sansserif font set is not complete, but the whole DejaVu set

> is there....

>

> I looked at the code for reportlab/lib/fonts.py but AFAICT the error is

> being generated due to an empty map.

>

> I'm stuck.

> _______________________________________________

> reportlab-users mailing list

> reportlab-users at lists2.reportlab.com

> http://two.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/reportlab-users




-- 
Andy Robinson
Managing Director
ReportLab Europe Ltd.
Thornton House, Thornton Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 4NG, UK
Tel +44-20-8405-6420