[reportlab-users] Fwd: text of paragraph sits at bottom of area.

[Tim Roberts]

Kerri Reno wrote:

> I sent this question last month.  I'm sorry if I worded it badly or

> something, but I got no response.  Can anyone help me with this?  I'm

> writing a paragraph directly to a canvas, and the text is bottom

> oriented.  Please help me with this!


Could you possibly include a runnable sample that demonstrates the
problem?  It's a little hard to discern exactly what you mean from the
example.

I would point out that coordinates in Postscript do start at the bottom
of the page and go up.  If you have a chunk of text of variable height,
and you draw it at (72,72), it will always draw at the lower-left corner
of the page.  If you want it to draw with the top of the paragraph 5
inches above the bottom of the page, then you need to compute the Y
coordinate as 5 * inch - paragraph.height.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.