Re: Using Symbola or equivalent Unicode6 font with Reportlab

Hi Robin,

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Robin Becker <[email protected]> wrote:

> you just need to download some fonts into the reportlab/fonts folder you
> can get them here
>
> http://www.reportlab.com/ftp/pfbfer-20070710.zip
>
> alternatively try removing 'png' from the list of outputs ie
> formats=['pdf'] in the save command. I think we need those T1 font pfbs for
> renderPM output, but not for PDF.
>
> Thanks, removing the png renderer made the script work (I already had the
fonts installed in reportlab/fonts).

I made some further testing with as many fonts as possible and could not
find any font that would render every langage.
Here is an example of a file with 9 different alphabets rendered with every
font from Windows 7:
http://strycore.com/documents/reportlab/reportlab-unicode-windows-fonts.pdf(6Mb
file)  and this is the script I used to generate the file:
http://strycore.com/documents/reportlab/fontrendering.py

The ReportLab manual has a paragraph on automatic output font substitution
but mentions the Symbol and ZapfDingBats character sets. I assume this does
not work with character sets such as Asian alphabets?

Now that I have a good testing script, I experiment some more with
FontForge and keep you informed if I find anyhting of interest.

Mathieu