[reportlab-users] Paragraph wrapping and height calculation

[Tim Hoffman]

Ignore more last email

I am stupid.

Tim


Tim Hoffman wrote:

> Hi
>
> There seems to be some problems with the height calculation of 
> Paragraphs when wrap() is called.
>
> Reading the docs/code etc I believe wrapOn and wrap when called on 
> flowables (and specifically the Paragraph)
> should return the width and height that was used of the available 
> width and height, but thats certainly not what is happending for me.
> (I have one line of text with a 139 pt font) and I get a height back 
> of 12.
>
>
> Looking at the code I see the following.
>
>    def wrap(self, availWidth, availHeight):
>        # work out widths array for breaking
>        self.width = availWidth
>        leftIndent = self.style.leftIndent
>        first_line_width = availWidth - 
> (leftIndent+self.style.firstLineIndent) - self.style.rightIndent
>        later_widths = availWidth - leftIndent - self.style.rightIndent
>        self.blPara = self.breakLines([first_line_width, later_widths])
>        self.height = len(self.blPara.lines) * self.style.leading
>        return (self.width, self.height)
>
> Which as far as I can tell doesn't take into account the height of 
> each line in the wrapped text, just the number of lines and the 
> leading specified
> in the style.
>
> Am I reading this wrong or am I missing something else.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim Hoffman
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