[reportlab-users] Bulleted list

[Jim Steil]

Sorry, I noticed a typo below, style.bulletIndex should be 
style.bulletIndent.  I have fixed this and tested, but had no further luck.

     -Jim

On 4/13/2010 1:51 PM, Jim Steil wrote:

> Hi

>

> I'm having a heck of a time trying to get a bulleted into my PDF.  I 

> want the following:

>

>     * This is my test text. After the first line, the rest of the text

>       should wrap and indent and subsequent lines.  Assuming you are

>       using an HTML-enabled reader, this should be a good example.

>     * This is my second bulleted point.

>

> I've tried setting the bulletFontName, bulletFontSize and bulletIndent 

> in the style applied to my paragraph, but I'm obviously missing 

> something important.  Instead of it not working, it is all just 

> blank.  It doesn't print anything.

>

> In my paragraph text, I'm using the <bullet> and </bullet> tags to 

> show that it should be bulleted.  Here is a sample of what I'm doing:

>

>     styles = getSampleStyleSheet()

>     style = styles['Normal']

>     style.fontName = 'Arial'

>     style.fontSize = 12

>     style.leading = 16

>     style.bulletFontName = 'Arial'

>     style.bulletFontSize = 12

>     style.bulletIndex = 25

>

>     bullet2 = Paragraph('<bullet><b>Have an expiration date '

>                                'specific to the additive.</b>  This '

>                                'information is supplied by the product 

> tag '

>                                'or additive addendum tag.  To comply 

> with '

>                                'FDA guidelines, the supplement must be 

> fed '

>                                'before the expiration date.</bullet>', 

> style)

>

>     reportStory.append(bullet2)

>

> My other paragraphs are working fine.  Just having trouble with the 

> ones with the <bullet> tags in them.

>

>     -Jim

>

>

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Jim Steil
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Quality Liquid Feeds, Inc.
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