font conversion errors

[ensonic]

continuing from #250 (comment)

additional_fonts.txt:

/home/ensonic/.local/share/fonts/
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/

python3 cewe2pdf.py ~/Downloads/WilliamJugendweihe.mcfx
>>> cewe2pdf version 1.0; Git identification: cewe2pdf-v1.0-build-195-0-g151a0fa-dirty
23:40:25 - root - INFO - Unpacking mcfx to /tmp/tmp5wm0di_6
23:40:25 - root - INFO - Connected to mcfx database
23:40:26 - root - INFO - Disconnected from mcfx database
23:40:26 - root - INFO - returned to cwd /home/ensonic/projects/tools/cewe2pdf, mcfname /tmp/tmp5wm0di_6/data.mcf
23:40:26 - root - INFO - Trying cewe2pdf.ini from current directory and from the album directory.
>>> Using configuration files, in order: ['cewe2pdf.ini']
>>> cewe_folder is /home/ensonic/Downloads
23:40:26 - root - ERROR - Could not extract keyAccount tag in file: /home/ensonic/Downloads/Resources/config/keyaccount.xml, using 0
23:40:26 - root - WARNING - No installed hps data folder found
>>> Using image resolution 150, background resolution 150
>>> Default line scale = 1.15
>>> Using additional font definitions from: ./additional_fonts.txt
>>> Scanning for ttf/otf files in ['/home/ensonic/Downloads/Resources/photofun/fonts', '/home/ensonic/.local/share/fonts', '/home/ensonic/.local/share/fonts/', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/']
23:40:26 - cewe2pdf.config - WARNING - One-time font conversion otf->ttf: /home/ensonic/.local/share/cewe2pdf/Cantarell-VF.ttf
23:40:26 - root - INFO - GC collected objects : 0
Total message counts, including messages suppressed by logger configuration
 cewe2pdf.config: WARNING[1], INFO[1]
 root:            ERROR[1], WARNING[1], INFO[6]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/ensonic/projects/tools/cewe2pdf/cewe2pdf.py", line 315, in <module>
    resultFlag = collectArgsAndConvert()
  File "/home/ensonic/projects/tools/cewe2pdf/cewe2pdf.py", line 309, in collectArgsAndConvert
    return convertMcf(args.inputFile, args.keepDoublePages, pages, mcfxTmp, appData, outputFileName=outFile)
  File "/home/ensonic/projects/tools/cewe2pdf/cewe2pdf.py", line 223, in convertMcf
    return session.render(processElements)
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/ensonic/projects/tools/cewe2pdf/albumConversionSession.py", line 78, in render
    self.setup = prepareConversion(
                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
        self.album_name, self.mcfx_tmp_dir, self.app_data_dir, self.state)
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/ensonic/projects/tools/cewe2pdf/conversionSetup.py", line 167, in prepareConversion
    availableFonts = findAndRegisterFonts(defaultConfigSection, appDataDir, albumBaseFolder, ceweFolder, state)
  File "/home/ensonic/projects/tools/cewe2pdf/fontHandling.py", line 72, in findAndRegisterFonts
    addTtfFilesFromFontdirs(ttfFiles, fontDirs, appDataDir)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/ensonic/projects/tools/cewe2pdf/fontHandling.py", line 268, in addTtfFilesFromFontdirs
    ttfsFromOtfs = getTtfsFromOtfs(otfFiles,appDataDir)
  File "/home/ensonic/projects/tools/cewe2pdf/otf.py", line 107, in getTtfsFromOtfs
    otf_to_ttf(
    ~~~~~~~~~~^
        font,
        ^^^^^
    ...<2 lines>...
        reverse_direction=REVERSE_DIRECTION, # options.reverse_direction
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    )
    ^
  File "/home/ensonic/projects/tools/cewe2pdf/otf.py", line 43, in otf_to_ttf
    assert "CFF " in ttFont
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AssertionError

If I comment out /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ it runs, but I get font-mapping errors.

[AnEnglishmanInNorway]

Hi Stefan
Did you really install the cewe software underneath your downloads folder? These are pretty important messages

23:40:26 - root - ERROR - Could not extract keyAccount tag in file: /home/ensonic/Downloads/Resources/config/keyaccount.xml, using 0
23:40:26 - root - WARNING - No installed hps data folder found

which mean it cannot find any of the cewe resource files which have probably been used in the album. I'll agree, the processing from that point on shouldn't crash, nothing should crash, but I don't hold out much hope for your album without the resources

Oh. You mentioned you are doing this for your parents? So you don't have the cewe software on your own machine? That makes life a bit tricky, because their album will probably be referring to resources such as fonts, cliparts, etc, which are not available. Now that should still work, that's the same as our test environment on the github servers, but you do need to have a minimal set of definitions which make it think it has some resources. For testing we do that in the cewe2pdf.ini file in the test directories, pointing it at the test resources we use...

[DEFAULT]
cewe_folder = tests/
hpsFolder = tests/hps 

Try a cewe2pdf.ini file next to your album which specifies these folders in our code structure, I guess best with full path names. Because the resources which your parents have used will not be there, the code will probably need to use font substitutions so the texts might be different.

[ensonic]

Did you really install the cewe software underneath your downloads folder?

I did not, I am on linux and did not plan to install the cewe software via wine. It was not suport clear to me how much that would actually be required here (e.g. No installed hps data folder found is not a very obvious error).

My parent might have use the default font, but they did not use any clipart.

Let me try the test suggestion ...

[AnEnglishmanInNorway]

As you see, it finally occurred to me that you were in fact running in a completely different environment, where CEWE was not installed at all. I don't think any of the programmers who have worked on the code on and off over the last 5 or 6 years have anticipated that scenario. I agree that the hps data folder message is less than obvious if you are simply using the project result rather than looking at the code itself. I'm currently looking at an update which would take account of the complete absence of the cewe product. No guarantees, but I'll see if I can make it survive when that happens. The diagnostics on font conversion are interesting. Perhaps the package we use for that doesn't work on Mac. But we can think about that once the basic program can run without cewe

[ensonic]

Thanks for the help. I did modify cewe2pdf.ini (since it contained a lot of c:\ references, but it was quite some trial and error as I was not sure where to point it to. Using the test folder was a great suggestion and made it work well.

I would actually expect that most users of this tool would be those that don't have the original software. But indeed the README point is out in step 4 that you need it (an I just assumed it is not available for linux).

[AnEnglishmanInNorway]

The latest version should allow you to specify

cewe_folder = 

in the cewe2pdf.ini file next to your album, making it quite explicit that you have no cewe installation present. You should specify the location of the system fonts in the adjacent additional_fonts.txt.

Let me know if you still have trouble with getting the fonts registered. That could be a bit tricky

[ensonic]

I've installed the software now and added the config. No more errors this way.

[AnEnglishmanInNorway]

A wise decision, I think, especially since it's free! With that you should get a pretty good representation of the album, rather than a best-effort approximation. That said, your experiences and feedback have kept me amused testing "no cewe" operation and have led to several improvements. Thanks for taking the time to describe the issues you hit. Sent from [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home) for Android.

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