[reportlab-users] Newbie -- How to center text in a paragraph

[Andy Robinson]

Jim Steil wrote:
> Hi:
> 
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> 
> I’m REAL new to reportlab and am trying to center my text in a 
> paragraph.  I’ve found the XML markup and have the following code:
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>     styles = getSampleStyleSheet()
> 
>     style = styles['Normal']
> 
>     s5Text1 = '<para alignment="1"><i><b>QLF PRESERVATIVES AND MOLD 
> INHIBITORS</b></i></para>'

Try '<para alignment="center">'.  In xml you can use 'left', 'center',
'centre' (for reactionary Brits), 'right' and 'justify'.

But if you want the whole paragraph to be bold, italic and centered,
it's more efficient to make a style with those properties and create the 
paragraph with that style.  Typically you want about 10 styles in a 
document, and only need the XML markup for intra-paragraph changes. To 
go this way we DO use numeric constants and TA_CENTER is 1.

   from reportlab.lib.styles import ParagraphStyle
   from reportab.lib.enums import TA_LEFT, TA_RIGHT, TA_CENTER, TA_JUSTIFY
   sty = ParagraphStyle(name="myStyle", alignment="TA_CENTER", 
fontName="Helvetica-BoldOblique")
   para = Paragraph(text, style=sty)




- Andy