[reportlab-users] Chinese Custom Glyphs

[Andy Robinson]

Hi Dan,

I used to work in Japan in 1989-1990, and remember the chaos it caused
as each department in the company tried to keep a "custom font" on a
shared drive with extra glyphs for specific customers.  Sometimes,
people preferred to write their names with historic versions of
characters that had been "officially" simplified, and well-meaning
marketing managers and secretaries obliged them, causing nightmares
thereafter because everyone would end up with slightly different
versions of the font.  I naively hoped that Unicode had made this
problem go away a couple of decades ago!

Out of curiosity, is it the same problem?  Is there a legitimate
reason why Chinese users can't use standard Unicode characters?

Thanks,

Andy


On 1 July 2015 at 15:26, Daniel Casper <dancasper at gmail.com> wrote:
> To whom it may concern,
>
>
>
> I wanted to reach out and discuss the state of custom character set / custom
> glyph support for the ReportLab libraries.  We currently use the open source
> package in PDF Generation utilities that are used in many countries.  In
> China specifically, our users make use of the Private Character Editor to
> provide custom glyphs for fonts on their systems.  They then choose the font
> EUDC to include those custom glyphs for their documents.  Unfortunately,
> when attempting to register this font with the ReportLab library we receive
> the following traceback:
>
>
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
>   File reportlab\pdfbase\ttfonts.pyo, line 1009, in __init__
>
>   File reportlab\pdfbase\ttfonts.pyo, line 915, in __init__
>
>   File reportlab\pdfbase\ttfonts.pyo, line 413, in __init__
>
>   File reportlab\pdfbase\ttfonts.pyo, line 499, in extractInfo
>
> TTFError: Could not find PostScript font name
>
>
>
> Has anyone else worked with fonts that don't contain these PostScript names,
> or is there some other way to go about getting them embedded?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
>
> --Dan
>
>
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