[reportlab-users] Printing Variable Length String

[Rich Shepard]

On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, timr at probo.com wrote:


> ... but it really isn't that hard to do word-wrapping on your own. You

> can split() the string on white space, and keep adding words one at a time

> until the stringWidth() exceeds the length you want, and then back off one

> word.


   Has anyone a working algorithm to do this? The one I'm working on seems
excessively bulky and complex; I'm sure there's an easier way.

Rich

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