[reportlab-users] Scaling text to fit remaining space

[Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:12:20AM -0400, JamesClementsIII@netscape.net wrote:
> How do I measure the length of a string before deciding to place it on
> a page.  When I'm filling in tables of a fixed size, I would like to
> have the option of shrinking a string 3-5% to make it fit.

If you know the font name and size, you can use

  pdfmetrics.stringWidth(text, fontname, fontsize)

Marius Gedminas
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