Re: universal unicode font for reportlab

[Laszlo Nagy]

The GNU Unifont <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Unifont>
<URL:http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html> covers an impressive range of
the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane.

Unifont is originally a bitmap font, but was recently made available
in TrueType format 
<URL:http://www.lgm.cl/trabajos/unifont/index.en.html>.

Both are available in Debian 'lenny'; the 'unifont' and 'ttf-unifont'
packages, respectively.
I found out that dejavu is what I need. It covers the languages I need 
and more:

http://dejavu.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dejavu/tags/version_2_26/dejavu-fonts/langcover.txt
Sorry, this did not work either. Dejavu does support cyrillic and greek 
characters but I have to load a different ttf for that. They are no 
unified. :-( The only one that worked so far was "unifont.tff" but it is 
very ugly above point size=10.

Can you tell me what kind of font Geany is using on my Ubuntu system? 
The preferences tells that it is "monospace" but when I load 
VeraMono.ttf in reportlab, it will not even display latin2 characters. 
In contrast, please look at this example that show my test program in Geany:

http://www.shopzeus.com/geany.jpg

It is a real scalable truetype font, displaying latin 1, latin2, 
chinese, russian and japanese characters. Is it the same font? Does this 
mean that reportlab is buggy? If I could load the same font that geany 
uses, it would probably solve my problem forever.

Thanks,

Laszlo

# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
import os,sys
import copy

from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
from reportlab.lib import pagesizes


# we know some glyphs are missing, suppress warnings
import reportlab.rl_config
reportlab.rl_config.warnOnMissingFontGlyphs = 0
from reportlab.pdfbase import pdfmetrics
from reportlab.pdfbase.ttfonts import TTFont
#pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont('wpsu', 'vera/VeraMono.ttf '))
pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont('wpsu', 'VeraMono.ttf'))


xsize,ysize = PAGESIZE = pagesizes.A4

lines = [
    "ÁRVÍZTŰRŐ TÜKÖRFÚRÓGÉP",
    "雑誌のベストセラー",
    "中国的网页",
    "Сайт в разработке",
]

c = canvas.Canvas('labels.pdf', pagesize=PAGESIZE)
for idx,line in enumerate(lines):
    textobject = c.beginText()
    textobject.setFont('wpsu',10)
    textobject.setTextOrigin(100, 700 - 50*idx)
    textobject.textLine(line)
    c.drawText(textobject)
c.save()

if sys.platform=='win32':
    os.system("labels.pdf")
else:
    os.system("evince labels.pdf &")
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