On 2010-07-15, Bruce <epo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to create a word doc using win32com.
Unfortunately the phrase "word doc" is meaningless. Exactly what format file are you trying to generate? For example: Word97 "doc" or the new "docx" format? > I don't get the same whitespace as when printing the same stuff in > the dos window. At the terminal I manage to line up the second column > like > > apples 5 > pears 7 > > I do this by adding whitespace characters to the strings in the first > column so that their length is equal to that of the longest string in > the first column. Are you just generating an ASCII text file and then opening it in word? > I print the excact same string to word. but in the word doc somehting > happens that messes things up like this : > > apples 5 > pears 7 > > Needless to say, this is extremely frustrating. But why does it > happen, and how can I align the column in word? Why? Because word is using a viable-spaced font and the "dos window" uses a fixed-width font. If you want any control over the appearance of the document, you'll have to either force word to open the file in a fixed-width font, or you'll have to generate a file that contains formatting information. What you appear to want is a table. Generating RTF has worked well for me in the past: http://code.google.com/p/pyrtf-ng/ http://pyrtf.sourceforge.net/ An enahanced version of pyRTF that supports EMF graphics and scaling of graphics is available here: http://www.panix.com/~grante/files/python/PyRTF-0.46.tar.gz If you want to generate graphics, this might be worth a look http://pyemf.sourceforge.net/ You might also be able to generate HTML and then open that file using Word. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! The Osmonds! You are at all Osmonds!! Throwing up gmail.com on a freeway at dawn!!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
