[reportlab-users] Problems generating PDFs with drawText()

[Marius Flage]

Your answer did at least lead me to downgrade to 2.7 and then both
approaches worked - both Table() and drawText().

Thanks, I guess :)

- Marius

Den 14.12.2014 15:43, skrev Adrian Klaver:
> On 12/14/2014 05:17 AM, Marius Flage wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I wrote a small script to generate invoices from GNUCash with reportlab,
>> but haven't been able to use it for the last couple of years. Firstly
>> because an error with the drawOn and Table methods which outputted
>> nothing. After an upgrade to the latest version of reportlab, then
>> tabular data started working again and I could use these methods again,
>> but now drawText() has stopped working. drawString() works fine, but
>> drawText() outputs nothing in the PDF document.
>>
>> Here's my code:
>>
>> from reportlab.lib.units import mm
>> from reportlab.lib import colors
>> from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import A4
>> from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
>> from reportlab.platypus import *
>> from reportlab.rl_config import defaultPageSize
>> from reportlab.lib.styles import getSampleStyleSheet
>>
>> c = canvas.Canvas("test.pdf", A4)
>>
>> # company information
>> text = c.beginText()
>> text.setTextOrigin(150*mm, 282*mm)
>> text.textLines("""test dwkmflwkmfw
>> telkmtlwkmtw
>> tlkmewltmwt""")
>> c.drawText(text)
>>
>> c.showPage()
>> c.save()
>>
>> ---------
>>
>> But test.pdf is empty. Any idea? I'm running the latest version of
>> reportlab as installed from pip install reportlab.
>
> No idea. I can confirm though that the above works in 2.7 but not in
> 3.1.8
>
>>
>> - Marius
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