[reportlab-users] Built-in versus embedded fonts

[Marius Gedminas]

On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 06:16:37PM -0700, Glenn Linderman wrote:
> As an outgrowth of the "Helvetica" reference (and I've got working code to
> avoid it now, but would like the Canvas parameter for initial_fontname in
> time, thanks), I found some code that is using "Times-Roman" (also built in)
> to determine which string is longer... The strings are _actually_ placed in
> the document using "Times New Roman" (TTF)... but...
> 
> 1) pdfmetrics.stringWidth doesn't seem to work for TTF fonts.
> 2) I couldn't find an obvious way to obtain the information for TTF fonts.
> 3) If kerning gets implemented, the stringWidth should reflect that.
> 
> I vaguely recall implementing this "proxy for reality" late one night in a
> coding frenzy... is there an easy way to obtain stringWidth for a TTF font?

This works fine with all kinds of fonts:

    canvas.stringWidth(text, font_name, font_size)

Marius Gedminas
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