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

[Andy Robinson]

I can see this on my machine too.  Since all of our numerous test
documents "look normal", I can only presume we have changed the way we
use textobjects and not documented the new way clearly enough.   I
cannot investigate properly tonight but we'll look at this in the
morning and get back to you tomorrow.

- Andy

On 14 December 2014 at 21:15, Marius Flage <marius at flage.org> wrote:
> 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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