On 1/26/12, Paul McNett <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1/26/12 3:48 AM, islam abofarha wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>
> Hi and welcome.
>
>> i'm comming from gambas and visual basic programming .i built an ERP
>> software to manage pharmacies using gambas but i faced alot of bugs
>> and errors beside it's for linux only not for Windows OS .so i am
>> shifting to python and i i found dabo ...
>
> I don't have any gambas or Visual Basic experience, but I have used
> Microsoft tools
> before (Visual FoxPro).
>
>> when installation on my Ubuntu an error arise bout translation
>> missing..as i am in Egypt.My main language is arabic....
>
> Any chance you could post the traceback in its entirety? We'd like to fail
> as
> gracefully as possible when a given translation isn't yet available.
the error message is No translation file found for domain: 'dabo'
>
>> i figured out the problem in the absence of ar Folder so i created one
>> and added the en LC file in it.
>>
>> Then i tried adding arabic labels which worked when adding utf-8
>> comment at the top of the file..
>
> Good!
>
>> the problem when i tried the Report Designer arabic text becomes
>> squres when previewed...i think it's from ReportLab ...
>
> It is because by default reportlab (and dabo report designer) uses Type 1
> Times,
> Helvetica, and Courier fonts. These fonts don't have very many special
> characters
> defined at all, so they are only really useful as default fonts for American
> English
> countries.
>
> You'll have to find a TrueType font or fonts that support the characters you
> want to
> print, put them in your app's resources/ directory, and tell reportlab about
> them.
>
> Add a 'registerFonts.py' script in your application's home directory, with
> these
> contents:
>
> {{{
> import os
> from reportlab.pdfbase import pdfmetrics
> from reportlab.pdfbase.ttfonts import TTFont
>
> def registerFonts(homedir):
> for fname in os.listdir(os.path.join(homedir, "resources")):
> name, ext = os.path.splitext(fname)
> if ext == ".ttf":
> #print "registering %s..." % name
> pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont(name, os.path.join(homedir,
> "resources", fname)))
>
> }}}
>
> And somewhere in the initialization of your application (main.py file or
> dApp
> subclass, for instance) make the call:
>
> {{{
> from registerFonts import registerFonts
> registerFonts(app.HomeDirectory)
> }}}
>
> And now, in your reports, modify Reports.Defaults.FontName to be the name of
> the true
> type font you want your objects to use by default. Or, modify each string
> object
> individually.
>
>> is there a chance to make arabic supported in the reports.....?
>
> I don't know which freely-available truetype fonts support arabic (I use the
> DejaVu
> fonts) and I also don't know how to tell you to deal with right-to-left
> presentation
> of the characters. But I hope this at least gets you started.
>
> Paul
Thanx too much Paul ....I realy appreciate your help
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