[reportlab-users] Drawing things alongside paragraphs

[Andy Robinson]

2008/12/20 Donn <donn.ingle at gmail.com>:

> As an alternative: I was using the unicode symbol u"\u2605" and it gave really

> nice stars until it stopped. It's now drawing a thin slanted + symbol. I

> gather this has something to do with fonts, but don't know what or why. Is

> there anything I can do to guarantee the right symbol arrives in PDF on

> J.Random User's machine?



Pick a font you like,  which is NOT used by reference (i.e. not Helvetica,
Times-Roman, Courier, Symbol or ZapfDingbats); and use that to draw the
stars in, and the glyphs should be
embedded in your PDF.   I would suggest using a TrueType font

Best Regards,


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