[reportlab-users] user manual updates

[Brenda J. Butler]

Two things:  a documentation comment and a question.

** Documentation comment:
I'm trying out ReportLab, and I'm looking at the manual "ReportLab PDF 
Library Users Guide" (ReportLab Version 2.5  Document generated on 
2011/03/03 03:38:57).

My goal is that I want to embed some charts in a web page.

In chapter 2 (section 2.17) it mentions that charts are covered in a 
separate document, "The ReportLab Graphics Library".  I wonder if that 
document has been merged into the document I'm reading as Chapter 11, or 
if it is still a separate document?  If separate, where can I get it?


** Question:
About the ArialMT font - I got the font zip file and unpacked it into 
the reportlab font directory, but I still cannot use the Arial font.

More details:
The file I got was:  http://www.reportlab.org/ftp/fonts/pfbfer.zip
I unpacked it into 
/usr/local/pythonenv/CLIENTPORTAL/lib/python2.5/site-packages/reportlab/fonts.
I'm using a virtualenv for python, so 
/usr/local/pythonenv/CLIENTPORTAL/lib/python2.5/site-packages is on the 
python path (and the system site-packages is not).

The unpacked font files are readable by all.

I'm running this script:
#!/usr/bin/env python

import os
import reportlab
from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas

folder = os.path.dirname(reportlab.__file__) + os.sep + 'fonts'
afmFile = os.path.join(folder, 'DarkGardenMK.afm')
pfbFile = os.path.join(folder, 'DarkGardenMK.pfb')
from reportlab.pdfbase import pdfmetrics
justFace = pdfmetrics.EmbeddedType1Face(afmFile, pfbFile)
faceName = 'DarkGardenMK' # pulled from AFM file
pdfmetrics.registerTypeFace(justFace)
justFont = pdfmetrics.Font('DarkGardenMK',
                            faceName,
                            'WinAnsiEncoding')
pdfmetrics.registerFont(justFont)



c = canvas.Canvas ('foo.pdf')
c.setFont('DarkGardenMK', 32)
c.drawString(10, 150, 'This should be in')
c.drawString(10, 100, 'DarkGardenMK')

c.setFont('Courier-BoldOblique', 32)
c.drawString(10, 250, 'This should be in')
c.drawString(10, 200, 'Courier-BoldOblique')

c.setFont('Symbol', 18)
c.drawString(10, 350, 'This should be in')
c.drawString(10, 300, 'Symbol')

#c.setFont('ArialMT', 18)
#c.drawString(10, 350, 'This should be in')
#c.drawString(10, 300, 'ArialMT')

c.showPage ()
c.save ()


I have commented out the lines that gave me an error.  The error was:

   File 
"/usr/local/pythonenv/CLIENTPORTAL/lib/python2.5/site-packages/reportlab/pdfbase/pdfmetrics.py", 
line 638, in getTypeFace
     return _typefaces[faceName]
KeyError: 'ArialMT'

(I ran the script under the virtualenv).

I saw the info about manually registering fonts using
     pdfmetrics.EmbeddedType1Face
     pdfmetrics.registerTypeFace
     pdfmetrics.registerFont

But I don't have an afm file - just a pfb file.

Help?

Extra question:
Also, my system has the following directories with fonts in them, is it 
ok to add a bunch of directories to the T1SearchPath like this:

T1SearchPath =  (
#                'c:/Program Files/Adobe/Acrobat 9.0/Resource/Font',
#                'c:/Program Files/Adobe/Acrobat 8.0/Resource/Font',
#                'c:/Program Files/Adobe/Acrobat 7.0/Resource/Font',
#                'c:/Program Files/Adobe/Acrobat 6.0/Resource/Font', 
#Win32, Acrobat 6
#                'c:/Program Files/Adobe/Acrobat 5.0/Resource/Font',     
#Win32, Acrobat 5
#                'c:/Program Files/Adobe/Acrobat 4.0/Resource/Font', 
#Win32, Acrobat 4
#                '%(disk)s/Applications/Python 
%(sys_version)s/reportlab/fonts', #Mac?
#                '/usr/lib/Acrobat9/Resource/Font',      #Linux, Acrobat 5?
#                '/usr/lib/Acrobat8/Resource/Font',      #Linux, Acrobat 5?
#                '/usr/lib/Acrobat7/Resource/Font',      #Linux, Acrobat 5?
#                '/usr/lib/Acrobat6/Resource/Font',      #Linux, Acrobat 5?
#                '/usr/lib/Acrobat5/Resource/Font',      #Linux, Acrobat 5?
#                '/usr/lib/Acrobat4/Resource/Font',      #Linux, Acrobat 4
#                '/usr/local/Acrobat9/Resource/Font',    #Linux, Acrobat 5?
#                '/usr/local/Acrobat8/Resource/Font',    #Linux, Acrobat 5?
#                '/usr/local/Acrobat7/Resource/Font',    #Linux, Acrobat 5?
#                '/usr/local/Acrobat6/Resource/Font',    #Linux, Acrobat 5?
#                '/usr/local/Acrobat5/Resource/Font',    #Linux, Acrobat 5?
#                '/usr/local/Acrobat4/Resource/Font',    #Linux, Acrobat 4
                 '%(REPORTLAB_DIR)s/fonts',              #special
                 '%(REPORTLAB_DIR)s/../fonts',           #special
                 '%(REPORTLAB_DIR)s/../../fonts',        #special
                 '%(HOME)s/fonts',                       #special
                 '/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1',
                 '/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts',
                 '/usr/share/fonts/type1/mathml',
                 '/usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/fkr/tipa',
                 '/usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/public/lm',
                 '/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/adobe/courier',
                 '/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/adobe/utopia',
                 '/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/bitstrea/charter',
                 '/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/hoekwater/manfnt',
                 '/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/hoekwater/mflogo',
                 '/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm',
                 
'/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cmextra',
                 
'/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cyrillic',
                 
'/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/euler',
                 
'/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/latxfont',
                 
'/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/symbols',
                 '/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/public/cbcoptic',
                 '/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/public/epiolmec',
                 '/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/public/esint-type1',
                 '/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/public/eurosym',
                 '/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/public/fpl',
                 '/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/public/marvosym',
                 '/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/public/mathpazo',
                 '/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/public/pxfonts',
                 '/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/public/rsfs',
                 '/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/public/txfonts',
                 '/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/public/wasy',
                 '/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/public/xypic',
                 '/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/urw/avantgar',
                 '/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/urw/bookman',
                 '/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/urw/courier',
                 '/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/urw/helvetic',
                 '/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/urw/ncntrsbk',
                 '/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/urw/palatino',
                 '/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/urw/symbol',
                 '/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/urw/times',
                 '/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/urw/zapfchan'
                  )

Is there a better way for a Debian squeeze system?  I do understand that 
I need to run that manual font registration for whatever fonts I want to 
use.

Thanks for whatever help you can send,
-- 
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