Rasha Ebo wrote:
> Peace be upon you,
Thanks, but I think you posted this to the wrong mailing list. db-sig
is about relational databases. You question sounds more related to
ReportLab's PDF lib.
> I use the platypus example in reportlab's user guide chapter 5 page 59 to
> build up a Doctemplate with flowables 'paraghrap' and 'spacer' (it is used to
> create 100 fixed-content paraghrap with spacer between paragraphs) and it
> worked well then I added to this example, the code of the 'Table' follwable
> in page 73 chapter 7 which used a variable called 'data' to hold the data of
> the table (code is provided at the end)
>
> When the value of data is:
> data= [['00', '01', '02', '03', '04'],
> ['10', '11', '12', '13', '14'],
> ['10', '11', '12', '13', '14'],
> ['30', '31', '32', '33', '34']]
> and no of the repeating the paraghraphes wsa set to 100
> , an error was raised saying:
>
> reportlab.platypus.doctemplate.LayoutError: Flowable <Table at 11499960 4
> rows x 5 cols> with cell(0,0) containing '00' too large on page 13
>
> At the begining, I thought it is a problem of splitting table across
> multiple pages but it is not because when I changed the value of data to be:
>
> data= [['00', '01', '02', '03', '04'],
> ['10', '11', '12', '13', '14']]
> and kept the no of the repeating the paraghraphes the same as above (100
> times)
> , No error has been raised and a table was splitted perfectly across 2 pages
>
> then I changed the data value to be:
>
> data= [['00', '01', '02', '03', '04'],
> ['10', '11', '12', '13', '14'],
> ['10', '11', '12', '13', '14'],
> ['30', '31', '32', '33', '34']]
> but I changed the no of the repeating the paraghraphes to 54 or less and it
> works well but with 55 or more, it fails.
> And by more experiments I have found that if cut down the length of the
> table data and increase the repetition number of the paragraph, it can work
> well and viseversa
>
> Can anybody explain to me what is the point that rules this behaviour, is
> it the number of charcters per page or per table cell or what?
>
> I will highlight the code line which sets the value of the table and the
> cosde line which determines the no of repetition
>
> I hope I have made my question clear and thanks very much for yor help
> (N.B I am a newbebi)
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> Code:
>
> platypusgo = """
> def go():
> doc = SimpleDocTemplate("phello.pdf")
> Story = [Spacer(1,2*inch)]
> style = styles["Normal"]
> data= [['00', '01', '02', '03', '04'],
> ['10', '11', '12', '13', '14'],
> ['10', '11', '12', '13', '14'],
> ['30', '31', '32', '33', '34']]
> t=Table(data)
>
> t.setStyle(TableStyle([('BACKGROUND',(1,1),(1,-1),green),('TEXTCOLOR',(0,0),(1,-1),red)]))
> for i in range(100):
> bogustext = ("This is Paragraph number %s. " % i) *20
> p = Paragraph(bogustext, style)
> Story.append(p)
> Story.append(Spacer(1,0.2*inch))
> Story.append(t)
> doc.build(Story, onFirstPage=myFirstPage, onLaterPages=myLaterPages)
> #Finally build up your DocTemplate
> """
>
> #------------Execute the page code-----------------------------------
> if __name__=="__main__":
> # then do the platypus hello world
> for b in platypussetup, platypusfirstpage, platypusnextpage, platypusgo:
> b = strip(b)
> print b
> exec(b+'\n')
> go()
>
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