I've seen this. My leaky memory says pyfpdf doesn't like percentages. Try
absolute units and I think it will work.
On Wednesday, May 21, 2014 1:04:58 PM UTC-4, Carlos Cesar Caballero Díaz
wrote:
>
> Thanks Mariano and Carlos, there is a simple code:
>
> controller default.py:
>
> def pdf_test:
> return dict(hello="hello")
>
> view default/pdf_test.html:
>
> <body>
> <h1>{{=hello}}</h1>
> <p>This is a text</p>
> <table width="100%">
> <thead>
> <tr>
> <th width="40%">name</th>
> <th width="60%">lastame</th>
> </tr>
> </thead>
> <tbody>
> <tr>
> <td width="40%">pepe</td>
> <td width="60%">paco</td>
> </tr>
> </tbody>
> </table>
> </body>
>
>
> "http://localhost:8000/myapp/default/pdf_test.pdf";<http://localhost:8000/myapp/default/pdf_test.pdf>shows
> a "Table column/cell width not specified, unable to continue" error.
> and removing the table, return a blank pdf
>
>
> El 21/05/14 11:33, Mariano Reingart escribió:
>
> Yes, pyfpdf has a basic html parser (based on python stdlib) and needs
> some conventions to translate tables to PDF.
>
> Could you make a minimal example to test and debug it?
> That way it would be easy to reproduce and see how to adapt the html to be
> rendered.
>
> You can look at the documented examples, using <thead> and <th> tags
> will help, and you need to specify the total table and cell widths:
>
> https://code.google.com/p/pyfpdf/wiki/WriteHTML
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Mariano Reingart
> http://www.sistemasagiles.com.ar
> http://reingart.blogspot.com
>
>
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Carlos Costa
> <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> It uses pyfpdf to convert it.
>> But there are some restrictions as I remember.
>> You check it here https://code.google.com/p/pyfpdf/
>>
>>
>> 2014-05-21 12:13 GMT-03:00 Carlos Cesar Caballero Díaz <
>> [email protected] <javascript:>>:
>>
>> Hi, I need some help, when I call a view with ".pdf" this:
>>>
>>> <html>
>>> <head>
>>> <title>Report</title>
>>> </head>
>>> <body>
>>> <table>
>>> <tr>
>>> <td width="50%">name</td>
>>> <td width="50%">pepe</td>
>>> </tr>
>>> </table>
>>> </body>
>>> </html>
>>>
>>> or this:
>>>
>>> <body>
>>> <table>
>>> <tr>
>>> <td width="50%">name</td>
>>> <td width="50%">pepe</td>
>>> </tr>
>>> </table>
>>> </body>
>>>
>>> returns a blank one page pdf. Now if I put the content before the body
>>> tag, it is rendered, but the table allways throw a
>>> "Table column/cell width not specified, unable to continue" error.
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>>
>>
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>>
>> Carlos J. Costa
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>> Esp. Gestão em Telecom
>>
>> EL MELECH NEEMAN!
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