[reportlab-users] "setfont" tag in RML seems not to work propelry

[Robin Becker]

Ulrich Weber wrote:

> 
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> your discussion on having an open source version of RML resp. rml2pdf or
> not does not help me really.
> 
> Actually, I am indeed using the open source version, i. e. tiny RML2PDF and
> the ReportLab open source PDF library.
> 
> In the meantime I did some Python debugging and found, that there is
> apparently a bug in the open source PDF library:
> 
> In reportlab/pdfbase/pdfdoc.py line 768 and those following read:
> 
>     def format(self, document):
>         strings = map(str, self.strings) # final conversion, in case of
> lazy objects
>         return string.join(self.strings, "")
> 
> The variable "strings" is populated (for good reasons), but obviously never
> used. If the last line shown above is changed to
> 
>         return string.join(strings, "")
> 
> everything works fine.
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Ulrich Weber
...... this actually looks like a bug which is exposed in the tinyrml 
stuff. Normally self.strings should be all type(""), but I suppose it's 
possible that some non string objects can get in there (at least in 
tinyrml).

-- 
Robin Becker