[reportlab-users] vertically centered text

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Aaron Spike wrote:


> I am able to center text horizontally with the drawCenteredString()

> function that the api provides. I haven't been able to find any way to

> center text vertically (or both vertically and horizontally at the same

> time). Is there any font metric I can access to adjust the vertical

> placement of text so that I can center it on a point?


Aaron,

   Trial-and-error while manually tweaking the cursor's position is the way
to go. Not very automated, but you get exceptionally fine control of text
placement this way.

Rich

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