[reportlab-users] stretching fonts
Paul McNett
p at ulmcnett.com
Mon Dec 29 12:34:51 EST 2008
Carl Karsten wrote:
> Is there a way to make a font, wider? or make a string take up x
> amount of space? the string is a constant (well, it will be "2009" for
> the next year...) and I need it to fill up an area that is about 1.5x
> the width it currently uses, without increasing the hight. and I don't
> want to just increase the spacing, because I like the look of the wider
> font.
>
> This may qualify as "that is changing the font, and so you should just
> use a different font." maybe. but I am trying to use a font that is
> pre-installed on ubuntu boxes.
Use PIL to draw the string to a bitmap, and then scale down the bitmap?
Paul
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