Is there any way to position the left edge of a text object's bounding box to a certain coordinate, regardless of the length of the text string? I originally figured I'd just create the text object, then read its width and calculate the left-side coordinates accordingly... but this 3-year-old (!) bug report suggests it's not possible to do this. Short of creating a lookup table for the pixel-widths of every letter in the alphabet for the variable-width fonts, have there been any creative developments on how to left-align text objects?