Package: python3-renderpm
Version: 3.6.12-1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: christo...@monniez.eu
Dear Maintainer,
Since the `gsfonts` package was replaced by `fonts-urw-base35`,
`python3-renderpm` reportlab is not able to draw any of the 14 standard fonts
anymore.
The reportlab documentation states that those fonts only needs to be
referenced by names.
For example, this simple python3 script should work:
```
from reportlab.graphics.renderPM import PMCanvas
c = PMCanvas(10,10)
c.setFont('Times-Roman', 32)
```
But leads to this error on Debian Bookworm:
```
Warn: Can't find .pfb for face 'Times-Roman'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/canvas.py", line 4, in <module>
c.setFont('Times-Roman', 32)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/reportlab/graphics/renderPM.py", line
405, in setFont
_setFont(self._gs,fontName,fontSize)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/reportlab/graphics/utils.py", line 42,
in setFont
_errorDump(fontName,fontSize)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/reportlab/graphics/utils.py", line 29,
in _errorDump
rl_exec(code,dict(RenderPMError=RenderPMError))
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
reportlab.graphics.utils.RenderPMError: Error in setFont('Times-Roman',32)
missing the T1 files?
```
Altough the `fonts-urw-base35` is properly installed.
This applies to any of the 14 standard fonts:
Courier, Courier-Bold, Courier-BoldOblique, Courier-Oblique, Helvetica,
Helvetica-Bold, Helvetica-BoldOblique, Helvetica-Oblique, Symbol,
Times-Bold, Times-BoldItalic, Times-Italic, Times-Roman, ZapfDingbats
The above script works on Bullseye when the `gsfonts` package is
installed, it also works if the `reportlab==3.6.12` package is installed
via `pip`.
It seems that when the `gsfonts` are installed, the file `n021003l.pfb`
is used for `Times-Roman`. On the other hand, without the `gsfonts, when
using the upstream pip package, the file `reportlab/fonts/_er_____.pfb`
is used. I saw that the `fonts` directory from upstream is completely
removed in the Debian package.
I think that it should work out of the box as it was when `gsfonts` were
available and as stated in the upstream documentation. Either the
`fonts` directory should not be removed from the package, or the package
should include the `gsfonts` pfb files for the 14 standard fonts, or the
package should be patched to work with the `fonts-urw-base35` provided
files.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages python3-renderpm depends on:
ii fonts-urw-base35 20200910-6
ii libc6 2.36-8
ii libfreetype6 2.12.1+dfsg-4
ii python3 3.10.6-3+b1
python3-renderpm recommends no packages.
python3-renderpm suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
Thanks
