reportlab - ttf justify

maeckle maeckle at arcor.de
Mon Jan 30 06:07:23 EST 2006


hi,

no success at the reportlab-users list.

i also applied the 'spaces patch to fix para splitting'-patch but it's 
still not justifying the text...

is there an other solution?

thanks alot!!
jm

>> maeckle wrote:
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> i'm working with reportlab since a couple of weeks and i managed to 
>>> create quite nice pdfs...
>>> there is a little problem though. since i have to create english and 
>>> russian content, i use the utf8 support of registered ttf's. the only 
>>> thing is that it does not support the justify-alignment in paragraph 
>>> flowables!
>>> is there a way to fix that?
>>>
>>> thanks alot
>>> jm
>>
>> Hi, you'll get better response from the reportlab-users list at
>>
>> http://two.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/reportlab-users
>>
>> The ttf support has been significantly improved in an svn branch. 
>> re-ask on that list giving your current version.
>>
>> I believe the problem with ttf justification was related to using 
>> space as a splitting character in dynamically subsetted fonts. Someone 
>> posted a fix for that problem to the users list and I think that has 
>> gone in to the code now, but I'm not sure if it is on the stable 
>> branch or not.
> 
> thank you, that helped me alot!
> 
> cheers
> jm



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