[reportlab-users] stretching fonts

[Andy Robinson]

2008/12/29 Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com>:

> 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.


Instead of Canvas.drawString, you can create a TextObject which
offers methods for adjusting the inter-character spacing. You
could use PDFTextObject.setCharSpace or setWordSpace.

You will need to call stringwidth yourself to work out the actual
size, then add character or word spacing accordingly.

Docstrings here...

  src/reportlab/pdfgen/textobject.py

Examples of text object and stringwidth are in

   src/tests/test_pdfgen_general.py

Hope this helps,
- Andy