Can I get the formatted text size using ReportLab in Python?

Question

Is it possible to get the size/extents of rendered text in reportLab?

I need to calculate some positions relative to other elements on the page.

The flowable system isn't want I'm looking for. I don't mind using it to get the sizes if necessary, but it's not appropriate for my overall layout. I tried creating a Paragraph an calling wrap but it returns the available width always, not the measured extends.

Answer 1

You may get the width of a rendered text with stringWidth :

from reportlab.pdfbase.pdfmetrics import stringWidth
width = stringWidth(text, font_name, font_size)

Line spacing gives you the height of a line of text.