Re: Built-in versus embedded fonts

On 6/22/2015 2:39 AM, Andy Robinson wrote:
>>      canvas.stringWidth(text, font_name, font_size)
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the response, but it doesn't work with my TTFont ones, as far as
>> I can tell... I get the same errors as reported in my last message, but with
>> a slightly different call stack.
> Glenn, can you post a very short code snippet where this fails, and
> also tell us the font you used with it?  We have been registering
> TrueType fonts and measuring their width for at least 12 years, so
> maybe you have a dodgy font file

http://nevcal.com/temporary/rl-test.py

Demonstrates that I have code that will allow TTFont.stringWidth to 
work, but not Canvas.stringWidth.

Whether the fault is in my code, or in reportlab, is hard for me to say. 
I don't know that I'm doing something wrong, in the larger program this 
was extracted from reportlab generally works and produces documents, but 
pdfmetrics.stringWidth (first tried) didn't work, and then I cast about 
for other solutions. My "workaround" was to use built-in Times Roman as 
a proxy for Times New Roman, which worked well enough for that font, but 
didn't solve the problem.

The rest is experimentation based on this discussion thread.

I don't have the latest version of reportlab, but I think it is the 
latest one released.... there is a reportlab-3.1.8.dist-info in my 
site-packages, so I'll assume that is the version number.

Glenn