[reportlab-users] Printing Variable Length String

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Tim Roberts wrote:


> No, bulky is pretty much the rule. Here's what I use.


   Thanks, Tim.

   What I wrote is:

 	X,Y = tb.getXY()
 	maxLineLen = 175
 	origLineLen = pg.stringWidth(strings_tuple[1], pg._fontname, pg._fontsize)
 	if origLineLen > maxLineLen:
 	  chunks = strings_tuple[1].split()
 	nWords = len(chunks)
 	i = 1
 	hunk = ''
 	for i in range(nWords):
 	  hunk += chunks[i] + ' '
 	  i += 1
 	  newLineLen = pg.stringWidth(hunk, pg._fontname, pg._fontsize)
 	  if newLineLen > maxLineLen:
 	    tb.textLine(hunk[:-1])
 	    tmp = chunks[i:]
 	    hunk = ''
 	    i = 1
 	    tb.setXY(270,Y-13)
 	  else:
 	    continue

   It's specific to the one situation, but in its own crude way it works.

Rich

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