On Sep 18, 3:20 am, Robin Becker <ro...@reportlab.com> wrote: > juanefren wrote: > > I am usingreportlabto create pdf documents, everything looks fine, > > how ever, is there a way to specify a max width to drawString > > function ? I mean cut the sentence and continue a step down... > > > Cheers.... > > You'll get better results asking at thereportlabuser group > > reportlab-us...@reportlab.com > > but there are some ways to do what you want just with simple string > manipulation. > > Assuming you know the initial x, y and have setup a canvas with the font and > sizeand the maximum width you want. > > fromreportlab.lib.utils import simpleSplit > L = simpleSplit(text,canv._fontname,canv._fontsize,maxWidth) > > for t in L: > canv.drawString(x,y,t) > y -= canv._leading > > I haven't tested this code, but that's the principle anyway for direct drawing > to the canvas. > -- > Robin Becker
It worked very good, thank you :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
