[reportlab-users] Illegal operation 'ET' outside text object.

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On Monday 11 August 2003 15:05, Robin Becker wrote:

> I'm guessing there's a line ending problem somewhere. Do you have a
> minimal example where this is happening? If it's in a hello world type
> example then perhaps I can work out what's going on from the source and
> result.
>

I've just made some test : it looks like text objects do not like to be drawn 
twice (canvas.drawText)

> We use ReportLab-1.18 internally with freeBSD, but don't look at the
> documents using a unix reader so it's possible that something PC
> specific has crept in.

It does the same with Acrobat on WinXP

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