[reportlab-users] Several questions about text output

[Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz]

Hello.

I'm creating a custom form like page and don't want to use platypus.

I'm willing to output a string in the form "header: text" where the  
header part is bold. I thought I would output the header with a bold  
font, then the text with the normal face. However, how do I get the  
length of the header part? I was looking for some getStringSize(font,  
text) which would return the width and height of the expected text,  
but haven't. Also canvas.drawString doesn't return such information.

On the font issue, how can I clip the text to a region? Let's say that  
I have a text too long to fit and don't want it to go out of the page.  
Is this done with the paths?