Dynamic height of generated PDF based on content

[wngrtzk]

Hi,

I am writing a script that:
1) Pulls a random sentence from a .txt file
2) Creates a PDF with the generated sentence

Some sentences are quite long and span more than one line. For various reasons I want the page size of the PDF to be fixed width and dynamic height based on the content.

Here is a rough visual demonstration of what I mean:

Example 1:
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A short sentence.
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Example 2:
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A longer sentence
that span over
several lines.
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Is there any way to to this?

I have been using fpdf which doesn't seem to have any kind of auto-height option. Is there any other library that may be able to do this?

At the moment, my script looks like this:

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#!/usr/bin/env python 3

import fpdf
import random

def GetRandomLineFromFile(filename):
  with open(filename,"r") as f:
    lines = f.read().split("\n")
  return lines[random.randint(0, len(lines)-1)]

line = GetRandomLineFromFile("thousandsofsentences.txt")

pdf = fpdf.FPDF()
pdf.add_page()
pdf.set_font("Arial", size=16)
pdf.write(5,(line))
pdf.output('generatedsentence.pdf', 'F')