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*does a little sourcediving*
I found a comment Should add code here to check width of test ... I'm assuming the author meant "text". Then again, using PDF::Create isn't the best rendering engine.
As I see it, you've got a few options:
- Convert to using PDF::Template. If you choose this, let me know and I'll create some templates to ease your conversion process. The benefit here is that P::T will do text wrapping for you.
- Create wider labels. When you call PDF::Labels->new(), you pass in a pageformat option. Choose one with a wider text area. $PDF::Labels::PageFormats[1] looks to be the widest one (if I'm reading the parameters correctly).
- Accept the fact your labels are truncated. This is the simplest, if least satisfying, option.
I would strongly recommend not attempting to fix the code. Text-width calculations are very difficult. PDF::Template doesn't attempt to do it, instead choosing to delegate to PDFlib. PDF::Create, the rendering engine for PDF::Labels, has a very limited facility for this, which PDF::Labels doesn't even seem to be using.
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