[reportlab-users] Drawing things alongside paragraphs
Andy Robinson
andy at reportlab.com
Mon Dec 22 03:46:15 EST 2008
2008/12/20 Donn <donn.ingle at gmail.com>:
> As an alternative: I was using the unicode symbol u"\u2605" and it gave really
> nice stars until it stopped. It's now drawing a thin slanted + symbol. I
> gather this has something to do with fonts, but don't know what or why. Is
> there anything I can do to guarantee the right symbol arrives in PDF on
> J.Random User's machine?
Pick a font you like, which is NOT used by reference (i.e. not Helvetica,
Times-Roman, Courier, Symbol or ZapfDingbats); and use that to draw the
stars in, and the glyphs should be
embedded in your PDF. I would suggest using a TrueType font
Best Regards,
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Andy Robinson
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