AW: [reportlab-users] new sample

Joerg Maeckle maeckle at web.de
Sun Feb 26 06:22:29 EST 2006


this is true - hyphenation would be a great help... 
as for the logo, i'm happy that i didn't spent much time to create it within
python - the company will replace the logo these days ;-)


> 
> This particular logo seems to be very easy to create with a 
> few lines of Python code using ReportLab Graphics only. A 
> long time ago I wrote a component for circular text, which is 
> still unre- leased, though, that would make it really trivial 
> (I just wrote a simple proof of concept):
> 
>    http://python.net/~gherman/UnreleasedStuff.html
> 
> Or you might use Jerôme's code for doing something like this, 
> if you don't mind its GPL license:
> 
>    http://www.reportlab.org/docs/cdlabels.py
> 
> > [...] custom tt-fonds (and i'm still looking for a solution to 
> > justify-align them - it's not possible with ttf!?).
> 
> Justifying TTF should work, but for narrow columns like the 
> left one in your sample the result will be rather ugly (see 
> your Eng- lish version) or you need to use tricks for 
> hyphenation by hand (as I assume you did in your Russian version).
> 
> Built-in hyphenation seems to be an ongoing issue with the 
> Report- Lab frameworks, that I regard as the most more or 
> less deliberate- ly ignored missing feature.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dinu
> 
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