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["P. Christeas" <xrg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 20 December 2010, you wrote:
> Now I understand your point, you are trying to create a fallback mechanism
> as a better solution to replace the current font mapping solution.
> Thank you very much for your insight. I will cross my finger.

My point is: since reportlab's pdfmetrics is a global variable, for the whole 
life of the python process (= the server), I don't want to replace all the 
fonts with /one/ Asian font. 
Imagine a company that needs to ship invoices to China, Russia and some 
Western countries. There is no single font that would satisfy all of them, 
sadly :( .

So, you may have a 'customfonts.py' table localized to your needs, that has 
been it's original purpose (hence the name "custom.."), but I cannot still see 
a global solution that would let OpenERP work out-of-the box for all 
countries. Our DejaVu, I think, is the best solution so far.