[reportlab-users] Dimensions, line lengths

[Tim Roberts]

Michael Hipp wrote:

> The program below is a hacked-up version of what appears in the 2.0

> User's Guide section 5.2 (p. 56). I'm trying to draw lines that start

> 0.25" from the left and extend 7.0" on US letter. The key lines are

> flagged with #***. But on screen and on print the line starts some

> 0.55" from the left and the line is only 6.55" long. What am I doing

> wrong?


Note that you can't tell anything from the screen.  Windows has
absolutely no idea how large your monitor is, so there is no way it can
accurately render a physical inch.  In point of fact, they don't even try.

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