Re: reportlab-users Digest, Vol 141, Issue 4

That works.. Thanks a lot Glenn

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> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 22:52:42 -0700
> From: Glenn Linderman <[email protected]>
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> On 8/18/2015 7:07 AM, Kaviraj Kanagaraj wrote:
> > Hi Everyone.
> >
> > I need a help on removing unsupported characters by the font before
> > write it into pdf.
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > I am using Lato Font. And I see that unicode u'\u2036' (REVERSED
> > DOUBLE PRIME) is not supported by Lato Font. So its displaying
> > "notdef" character(a question mark with box around it). But I want to
> > remove characters like this that doesn't supported by the font.
> >
> > Basically I want to custom "notdef" to null character so that it
> > removes it in pdf. Any way to do this? How do I solve this problem?
>
> You can learn how to tell if a character is in a particular TTF font by
> reading my posting from January at
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> https://pairlist2.pair.net/pipermail/reportlab-users/2015-January/011285.html
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> It is not a documented API, though. Whether one has been created in a
> more recent version, I couldn't say.
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