[reportlab-users] outline chars

[Tim Roberts]

Tim Roberts wrote:

> The same concept applies to text, but because outlining is not usually

> what you want, the default is only to use "fill" with text.  You can

> override that when you draw the string.  If you are using a textobject,

> you use setTextRenderMode.  0 means fill only, 1 means stroke only, 2

> means fill then stroke.


Whoops, I left out an important sentence there.  "If you are not using
textobjects, but instead are directly calling drawString or
drawRightString or drawCenteredString, you pass this as the "mode"
parameter:
 

> So:

>     cv.setFillColor( (0,1,0) ) # fill with green

>     cv.setStrokeColor( (0,0,1) ) # stroke with blue

>     cv.setFont( 'Bookman-Bold', 36 )

>     cv.drawString( 100, 100, 'Outline', mode=2 )


-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.