[reportlab-users] colwidths question

[James Yoo]

thanks everyone... I found a stringWidths function inside pdfmetrics module
and am using that with good results.


On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:


> Adrian Klaver wrote:

> > If I remember correctly the units are in picas(1/72 inch).

> >

>

> Just for completeness, Postscript's native units (which is what a PDF

> is) are 1/72 inch, but those are points.  A pica is 12 points, or 1/6 inch.

>

> There are other weird units you sometimes encounter.  A traditional

> printer's point is actually just over 1/72.27 inch.  A "Didot point",

> used in some European typesetting, is about 1/67.55 inch.  It was

> defined as 1/72 of the "French royal inch", which was slightly longer

> than the English inch.  A cicero is 12 Didot points.

>

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