[reportlab-users] Text Background

[Roberto Alsina]

On Thursday 11 June 2009 13:38:34 Joel Wickard wrote:

> I have a line I'm drawing with canvas.line, that I want to place a

> text label in the middle of.  If I use a text object, then the line

> and the text sort of co-mingle, I'm looking for the text to sort of

> clip the line out and create a white background / slight left & right

> padding.

>

> Anyone want to give me a starting direction on this?  In the past

> using something like illustrator if I was doing this by hand I would

> have just created a white block behind the text as a separate object,

> I'm just checking to see if we have a different options with

> reportlab.


I don't know if there is another option, but doing it that way should work in 
reportlab.

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