Re: Fonts - reportlab pics serif no matter what I do

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 <[email protected]> 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.
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