[reportlab-users] using images as bullets

[Robin Becker]

Nicholas Wieland wrote:
>  - Britt Hibbert :
> 
>>   Hi,
>>
>>   Does anyone have any experience using an image as a bullet when
>>   bulleting a list  ( basically a list of Paragraph objects) ? If so,
>>   any recommendations on simple methods of doing this would be greatly
>>   appreciated.
> 
>  
> Well, I've posted a ton of silly questions in the last few weeks on RL, so
> take my "advice" with a truckload of salt :p
> I'd suggest to subclass the Paragraph flowable, adding an argument to
> the initializer with the image you want to use.
> Then in the draw method you can use your image as you like, adding extra
> padding to the paragraph itself and drawinng the image where you like.
> Never tryied with Paragraph, but this is usually what I try when I want to
> personalize a flowable.
> 
> HTH,
>   ngw
That's probably good advice. We don't currently have any way to embed non 
character boxes etc inside standard paragraphs.
-- 
Robin Becker