[reportlab-users] Styles and Character Spacing

[Tim Roberts]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 17:32:44 -0700, "Tom Wiebe" <tom.wiebe at gmail.com> wrote:

>Drat, that's a minor let down. Makes total sense now that I think of
>it though, it would create a whole lot more work for the renderer.
>Fortunately, the places I need to do this are fixed headlines and such
>so I can easily use graphics instead for this project.
>


You don't have to use graphics.  You can place the characters
individually using the normal ReportLab text APIs.  If you read PDFs
with a hex editor (and who doesn't?), you'll see that many apps handle
kerning that way.

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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.