[reportlab-users] black squares for every newline

[dimitri pater]

Thanks Andy,
line.strip() was the solution
thanks again,
Dimitri

On 11/22/06, Andy Robinson <andy at reportlab.com> wrote:

>

> dimitri pater wrote:

> > Hi,

> >

> > when I do this (snippet):

> >

> > bodytext=open('sampletext.txt','r').readlines()

> >

> > for line in bodytext:

> > textobject.textLine(line)

> > c.drawText(textobject)

> >

> > I use ("Helvetica",12) as the argument for setFont

> >

> > There are black squares for every newline in the PDF. The sampletext.txt

> > file is saved as a UTF-8 file.

> >

> > I am still new to reportlab (two days now), so I could use some help ;-)

> > I did not find answers to my question on the web.

>

> Your method of parsing the file has resulted in every line having a

> newline character at the end.  This is not a valid glyph in the font

> so you get a nasty blob. Try stripping the whitespace from the line

> before printing it e.g.

>

> > for line in bodytext:

> >     textobject.textLine(line.strip())

> >     c.drawText(textobject)

>

>

> HTH

>

> - Andy

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