ReportLab letter spacing in Paragraph

Question

Is it possible to set up letter/char spacing in Paragraph Style? I tried to use spaceShrinkage but it doesn't make any difference

Answer 1

According to the official documentation, p. 30:

The setCharSpace method adjusts one of the parameters of text -- the inter-character spacing.

It's followed by a code sample:

def charspace(canvas):
    from reportlab.lib.units import inch
    textobject = canvas.beginText()
    textobject.setTextOrigin(3, 2.5*inch)
    textobject.setFont("Helvetica-Oblique", 10)
    charspace = 0
    for line in lyrics:
        textobject.setCharSpace(charspace)
        textobject.textLine("%s: %s" %(charspace,line))
        charspace = charspace+0.5