Re: specify max width to reportlab.canvas.drawString
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
specify max width to reportlab.canvas.drawString
I am using reportlab to 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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: specify max width to reportlab.canvas.drawString
juanefren wrote: I am using reportlab to 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 the reportlab user 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. from reportlab.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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
