[reportlab-users] stretching fonts

[Carl Karsten]

Is there a way to make a font, wider?   or make a string take up x amount of 
space?  the string is a constant (well, it will be "2009" for the next year...) 
and I need it to fill up an area that is about 1.5x the width it currently uses, 
without increasing the hight.  and I don't want to just increase the spacing, 
because I like the look of the wider font.

This may qualify as "that is changing the font, and so you should just use a 
different font."   maybe.  but I am trying to use a font that is pre-installed 
on ubuntu boxes.

Carl K