Laszlo Nagy wrote:
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> looks impossible to use it for creating raster images. Details here:
http://osdir.com/ml/python.reportlab.user/2005-06/msg00015.html
OK your error occurs because we need to set up the renderPM canvas with an
initial font (for compatibility with the PDF canvas). You can down load a zip
file containing suitable files from http://www.reportlab.org/ftp/pfbfer.zip.
Just unzip the pfb/afm files into reportlab/fonts and stuff should work there
after.
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I'm surprised when you say that libfreetype isn't available on
windows. It's a fairly hard road, but it can be travelled; certainly
we built the parts of freetype that we needed into our extension. That
required only a static library from freetype. I haven't needed to do
this on windows since 2.1.5 so perhaps it's harder now.
I'll try anything that might work. In fact I have already seen articles
about windows + libfreetype on the internet, but I could not find
statically linked libraries built against Python 2.6. If you could send
me a few hints where to start, I would greatly appreciate it. The only
one requirement that I do not want to start writting C code and glue
together libraries by hand. Not because I'm lazy but because I would
like to have something that can be installed easily on new windows
systems, and have no dependency problems "out of the box".
Thank you for your efforts.
Laszlo
I could send you the statically linked library that I use, but it's a
relocatable static library ie you need to combine it with some other extension.
I'm using it to combine with the _renderPM.c file to create a standalone pyd. I
suspect that's not what you want.
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