[reportlab-users] Background color to drawstring in canvas

[Tim Roberts]

Asif Jamadar wrote:

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> How can I give background color to the drawString method ?

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>  Canvas.setFillColor(blue) will not working for background color…

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Text in Postscript is always drawn with a transparent background.  If
you want a string to appear on a colored background, then you need to
draw the background as a filled rectangle, then draw the string on top
of that.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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