ReportLab newbie

[Tim Roberts]

Damjan <gdamjan at gmail.com> wrote:

>I'm trying this script with reportlab:
>
>from reportlab.pdfbase import pdfmetrics
>from reportlab.pdfbase.ttfonts import TTFont
>fontname = 'Arial-Bold'
>my_TTF = '/opt/Fonts/arial.ttf'
>font = TTFont(fontname, my_TTF)
>pdfmetrics.registerFont(font)

Do you realize that arial.ttf is normal Arial, and not bold?  Arial bold
lives in arialbd.ttf.

Reportlab automatically registers the Arial family.  You shouldn't need to
register it yourself.
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