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

[Marius Flage]

I'm talking about Reportlab. For several versions Table() didn't work,
and when I then upgraded to Ubuntu Trusty 14.04.1, then the Table() was
working again, but drawText() wasn't. Downgrading to 2.7 solved both
problems.

- Marius

Den 14.12.2014 22:14, skrev Andy Robinson:
> Marius, are you talking about ReportLab 2.7/3.x, or Python 2.7/3.x?
>
> Either way if there is a bug here we will look into it tomorrow morning.
>
> - Andy Robinson
>
> On 14 December 2014 at 21:08, Marius Flage <marius at flage.org> wrote:
>> 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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