Changes 2009

20090213

Configurable boldness

Okay, it seems that not all printer drivers behave correctly when they get «unusual» font weights. New testcase srcref:tests/textprinter/3.py shows whether your configured PostScript printer does it right. On the other hand the “Courier New” font looks «too lightweight» to many people on most printers. So I must make this option customizable.

N.B.: win32.lib.win32con defines the following names:

FW_DONTCARE = 0
FW_THIN = 100
FW_EXTRALIGHT = 200
FW_LIGHT = 300
FW_NORMAL = 400
FW_MEDIUM = 500
FW_SEMIBOLD = 600
FW_BOLD = 700
FW_EXTRABOLD = 800
FW_HEAVY = 900
FW_ULTRALIGHT = FW_EXTRALIGHT
FW_REGULAR = FW_NORMAL
FW_DEMIBOLD = FW_SEMIBOLD
FW_ULTRABOLD = FW_EXTRABOLD
FW_BLACK = FW_HEAVY

20090227

TimTools 0.6.42 released:

  • The boldness of bold and normal text is now configurable for prnprint.py (see [ref NEW:492 How bold is bold? (14.04.07)]).

20090418

I discovered that lino.textprinter.pdfprn.PdfTextPrinter.insertImage() has changed its behaviour between 0.6.37 <20071123_> and 0.6.42. Maybe because I upgraded the ReportLab toolkit between those releases.

PdfTextPrinter.insertImage() does not support behindText. Images are always placed over any text that occurs before them in the input file.

20090419 Working on tests

  • runtests.py now recurses into subdirs.

  • Started to move configuration options from “lino.config” to application-specific options. The first option is postscript_printer. Its definition has moved from the obsolete global lino.cfg file to a new file runtest.ini. Until now it was accessed in testcases by:

    config.win32.get('postscript_printer')

    New access code:

    self.runtests.options.postscript_printer

  • moved my_import and tsttools from lino.misc to lino.tools

20090810

  • Bug report: on a Windows XP running on a virtual machine of a Mac, calling for example…

    prnprint .\preview.prn

    … causes an error:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "prnprint.py", line 153, in <module>
  File "prnprint.py", line 150, in main
  File "lino\console\application.pyo", line 210, in main
  File "prnprint.py", line 139, in run
  File "lino\textprinter\textprinter.pyo", line 198, in readfile
WindowsError: [Error 123] Die Syntax für den Dateinamen, Verzeichnisnamen oder die Datenträgerbezeichnung ist falsch: '.'

  • Released TIM Tools 0.6.43. which fixes the above bug.

200909

  • Somewhere in September 2009 I split TimTools out of Lino.

20091228

  • There was a problem on a site with two machines, one running Windows XP and the other Vista:

    Lino prnprint
Homepage: http://lino.saffre-rumma.ee/prnprint.html
Copyright (c) 2004-2009 Luc Saffre.
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY and is
distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
See file COPYING.txt for more information.
Using Lino 0.6.42, Python 2.5.2 final, Python Windows Extensions, PIL
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "prnprint.py", line 153, in <module>
  File "prnprint.py", line 150, in main
  File "lino\console\application.pyo", line 210, in main
  File "prnprint.py", line 139, in run
  File "lino\textprinter\textprinter.pyo", line 200, in readfile
  File "codecs.pyo", line 626, in readlines
  File "codecs.pyo", line 535, in readlines
  File "codecs.pyo", line 424, in read
  File "encodings\cp1252.pyo", line 15, in decode
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 695: character maps to <undefined>

    For reasons I don’t understand, the system encoding (sys.stdin.encoding) was neither cp437 nor cp850 on both machines, but cp1252. Workaround was to specify manually the encoding of the input file using the -e parameter of prnprint and prn2pdf.

20091229

  • Migrated timtools-related changlog entries from Lino repository. Seems that I will maintain a changelog using Sphinx for each of my projects.