[reportlab-users] stretching fonts

[Paul McNett]

Carl Karsten wrote:

> 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.


Use PIL to draw the string to a bitmap, and then scale down the bitmap?

Paul