Re: OTF fonts supported by Reportlab?

Currently we don't support postscript otf fonts.
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Robin Becker


On 23/07/2013 17:48, Tim Roberts wrote:
> Mike Driscoll wrote:
>>
>> After writing a tutorial on fonts in Reportlab, I got a comment asking
>> if OTF fonts are supported. So far, I've found conflicting information.
>
> OTF files are an odd beast.  You can have OTF files that actually
> contain TrueType font data, and you can have OTF files that actually
> contain PostScript Type 2 font data.  I know ReportLab supports TrueType
> OTF files.  I don't know that it supports PostScript OTF files.
>
>
>> While this one says that if the font uses CFF format, Reportlab will
>> spit out an error:
>
> OTF/CFF fonts were not allowed in PDF files at all until PDF version
> 1.6, and I'm not sure ReportLab supports that.
>
>
>> Is there a way to make Reportlab accept this font or fonts like it?
>
> Submit a patch?   ;)
>