[reportlab-users] UTF8 Encoded Strings

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Robin Becker wrote:


> I'm not sure why the textLine method should be expected to do other than

> what its documentation says eg


Robin,

   It shouldn't do otherwise. But, textOut() is another option.


> The easiest way is just to add the two strings together with a separator in 

> between and pass that to textLine.


   Hadn't thought of that. What I did eventually come to is this:

 	  margin = textobject.getX()
 	  for pairs in pairData:
 	    textobject.textOut(pairs[0])
 	    textobject.setXPos(90)
 	    textobject.textLine(pairs[1])
 	    pg.drawText(textobject)
 	    textobject.setXPos(-90)

   This works (see attached pdf file). But, ...


> If as I suspect you really want this to be some kind of table ...


   I don't want a table, per se, but both strings in each tuple printed on
the same line.



> .. then it's much easier to be explicit and draw the strings where you

> want using canvas.drawString method. You'll need to do explicit

> positioning, but I assume you want to do that anyway.


   I'll try this approach, too.

Thanks,

Rich

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