gistfile1.py

import os
from reportlab.pdfbase import pdfmetrics
from reportlab.pdfbase.ttfonts import TTFont
import reportlab
reportlab.rl_config.warnOnMissingFontGlyphs = 0
 
#set the directory where the font is stored.
fonts_directory = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)),
                               "fonts")
 
#adding one font
pdfmetrics.registerFont(TTFont("unifont",
                               os.path.join(fonts_directory,
                                            "unifont/unifont.ttf")))
#and is character mapping
unifont_map = [
    #output of above script goes here
    ]
 
# similarly add more fonts
# and make a list of added fonts
 
fontlist = [
    "Helvetica",         # english and latin english fonts
    "AlMateen-Bold",     # arabic fonts
    "AlMohanad",         # arabic fonts
    "SazanamiGothic",    # japanese fonts
    "SazanamiMincho",    # japanese fonts
    "unifont",           # unifont should be always at the last
    ]
 
fontmapping = {
    "Helvetica": Helvetica_map,
    "AlMateen-Bold": AlMateenBold_map,
    "AlMohanad": AlMohanad_map,
    "SazanamiGothic": SazanamiGothic_map,
    "SazanamiMincho": SazanamiMincho_map,
    "unifont": unifont_map,
}
 
fontchecksequence = []
 
for eachfont in fontlist:
    if len(fontmapping[eachfont]) != 0:
        fontchecksequence.append(eachfont)
 
def selectfont(self, char):
    """ Select font according to the input character """
 
    charcode = ord(char)
    for font in fontchecksequence:
        for fontrange in fontmapping[font]:
            if charcode in xrange(fontrange[0], fontrange[1]):
                return font
    return "Helvetica"  # fallback, if no thirdparty font is installed