[reportlab-users] Reportlab Platypus issue

[Robin Becker]

On 29/11/2011 06:42, Asif Jamadar wrote:

> I'm using Reportlab tool to generate PDF report. In my source code I'm using reportlab.platypus.Paragraph class which supports some of basic html tags (like<br/>,<b>  <font>  etc...)

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> So my problem is using special characters with this Paragraph class with html tag<font>.

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> Suppose I want to display the characters '<' and'>' in my report then I will use Paragraph('<font>  <  </font>' ), but my generated PDF report not showing those characters. Why this is happening? What is the problem here?

use &lt; &gt; etc etc. In the platypus para.py there is a list of the supported 
entities.

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Robin Becker