Re: reportlab-users Digest, Vol 141, Issue 1

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> From: Kaviraj Kanagaraj <[email protected]>
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> Subject: [reportlab-users] Handling Ragged Lines in reportlab
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> Hi Everyone,
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> I am using reportlab to generate pdf with text and images. I am facing
> problem when using Paragraph in reportlab. Im using center alignment. But I
> see some paragraph have one or two words at the last line of the paragraph
> which is not pleasing visually. I have explored about the problem and found
> that I need to handle ragged lines. There is an option called "Balance
> ragged line" in InDesign. What is the appropriate option to be used in
> reportlab? Help me in figuring it out.
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> P.S: I have raised an issue on reportlab repo and also posted a question in
> google groups but sadly no response.
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> https://bitbucket.org/rptlab/reportlab/issues/64/handling-ragged-lines-in-reportlab
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> Thanks in advance.
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> From: Tim Roberts <[email protected]>
> To: reportlab-users <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [reportlab-users] Handling Ragged Lines in reportlab
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> Kaviraj Kanagaraj wrote:
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> > I am using reportlab to generate pdf with text and images. I am facing
> > problem when using Paragraph in reportlab. Im using center alignment.
> > But I see some paragraph have one or two words at the last line of the
> > paragraph which is not pleasing visually. I have explored about the
> > problem and found that I need to handle ragged lines. There is an
> > option called "Balance ragged line" in InDesign. What is the
> > appropriate option to be used in reportlab? Help me in figuring it out.
>
> There is no built-in function do this.  You're talking about a rather
> complicated, iterative process here.  I can imagine an implementation
> that just re-runs the line breaking process iteratively, reducing the
> right margin a tiny bit each time, until the last line is closer to
> being full, but you'd have to settle on heuristics.  How full is full
> enough?  How much is too full?  Is it OK to add another line?  I suppose
> you could create a derivative of Paragraph that does this, by wrapping
> breakLines.
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> > P.S: I have raised an issue on reportlab repo and also posted a
> > question in google groups but sadly no response.
>
> What Google group did you use?  As far as I know, this is the only
> mailing list for official and peer support.
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> Tim Roberts, [email protected]
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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