[reportlab-users] Finding out the width/height of text

[whit sheldon]

I have been using Reportlab and PIL to write text to an image for use as a
watermark.  In PIL one can do something like this:

from PIL import Image as IMG
from PIL import ImageFont, ImageDraw, ImageOps

tmpimg = IMG.new("RGB", (some_x,some_y), bgcolor)
# get space needed to render text
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(tmpimg)
sizex, sizey = draw.textsize(txt, font=font)
# resize image to hold text
tmpimg = tmpimg.resize((sizex,sizey),IMG.ANTIALIAS)


--Whit

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Jotham <jotham.read at gmail.com> wrote:


> Hello,

>

> I am wanting to use ReportLab to generate both a bitmap (for live preview

> in a client application) and PDF for dispatch to a printer.  I have a client

> application that allows some basic alterations to be made by the user, for

> this to work I need to be able to find out some geometry information for a

> given piece of text at a given font and style.  I can't see how to do this

> in ReportLab.  Ideally I would be able to render out just the text in

> question to a bitmap surface of some kind, work with that, and once

> everything is finalised generate the PDF.

>

> Any help would be appreciated,

>

> Regards.

>

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