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

[Jotham]

Thanks everyone.

Turns out I didn't understand the subject well enough.  Using a mixture
of pdfmetrics.getFont() and face.ascent/decent and pdfmetrics.stringWidth()
everything is working well now.

Regards,

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:


> Jotham wrote:

> >

> > I guess I wasn't very clear.  It's important for me that I also know

> > both the width and the height of the text.  I require the entire

> > bounding rectangle for the given input string at the given style.

> >  Right now it is a single line.  Maybe later it is going to need to

> > wrap within a pair of margins.

>

> Well, YOU set the leading for your canvas, so the height is really up to

> you.  The default leading, if you don't set it, is 120% of the font size

> in points.

>

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> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com

> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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