Is there a way to crop the unused space of a rectangle in pymupdf ?

[smithah]

The text being written into a rectangle leave some space at the end, need to know if there is a way to crop the unused spaces in a rectangle, so there is no unnecessay white spaces between adjacent lines

[JorjMcKie]

Depending on your insertion method, there are different way how the unused rectangular stripe at the rectangle's bottom is reported back. See documentation for insert_textbox, fill_textbox and insert_htmlbox.
Where in reality that empty stripe is located must be interpreted by you depending on the rotation angle you chose for the text - IAW if you chose 180° then the rectangle will have been filled from bottom to top and the empty stripe is located at the top accordingly.
Depending on this information, compute the placement of your next text rectangle.

All three methods also have ways to control the inter-line distance.

[smithah]

Thanks for the response will check on them

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On Thu, Jun 27, 2024, 8:47 PM Jorj X. McKie ***@***.***> wrote: Depending on your insertion method, there are different way how the unused rectangular stripe at the rectangle's bottom is reported back. See documentation for insert_textbox <https://pymupdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/page.html#Page.insert_textbox>, fill_textbox <https://pymupdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/textwriter.html#TextWriter.fill_textbox> and insert_htmlbox <https://pymupdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/page.html#Page.insert_htmlbox>. Where in reality that empty stripe is located must be interpreted by you depending on the rotation angle you chose for the text - IAW if you chose 180° then the rectangle will have been filled from bottom to top and the empty stripe is located at the top accordingly. Depending on this information, compute the placement of your next text rectangle. All three methods also have ways to control the inter-line distance. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#3634 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AG5HMU43EMDHS2EJDKSHDETZJQUJRAVCNFSM6AAAAABKAAEXKSVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43SRDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHM4TQOJVG4ZDA> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[smithah]

even after calculating the text width i see space in the insert_htmlbox

Its leaving quite and amount of space in the rectangle

Following were done :

1. Calculate the width of the text with the PIL and sum(font1.char_lengths(**bidi_text**+" ",fontsize=font_size))
   but still there are gaps in the rectangle formed as seen in the image above, the next line starts after that rectangle.

2. Reduced the fontsize to an optimal value

3. Tried rotation but it rotates the text altogether within the textbox.

[smithah]

#3267

Trying this approach, if it solves the issue faced

[smithah]

But it's extremely slow using insert_htmlbox

[JorjMcKie]

Of course it is slow - it must be!
As always: comfort has a price - see this blog article.

If you don't like the speed or don't need the comfort - simply do not use it!

[smithah]

Is there a way to find empty space exists in the rectangle after text is inserted? So the text font size can be increased till it exactly fits bbox width.

[smithah]

Referring this
#1146