[reportlab-users] Several questions about text output

[Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz]

El 15/07/2008, a las 0:59, Robin Becker escribió:

> [...]

> ascent,descent = getAscentDescent(fontName,fontSize)

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> if you don't specify fontSize then 1000 is assumed.

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> This will return the values for the ascent and descent of the font  

> from the baseline. So for fontSize x your string box will be

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> x,y-descent,x+stringWidth(s,fontName,fontSize),y+ascent

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> hope this isn't too arcane


Well, it works and that's good enough for me. Thanks.