[reportlab-users] Problem with Tables flowing

Robin Becker reportlab-users@reportlab.com
Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:21:50 +0100


In article <1063875407.6644.8.camel@pc-dt.countersnipe.com>, pieter
claassen <pieter@countersnipe.com> writes
>Hello,
>
>I am having trouble getting my tables to flow properly over multiple
>pages in Platypus. Here are the symptoms:
>1. Large tables more than 1 page long seem to hang the doc.build
>process. The columns do have a fixed width, the length is just large and
>it seems to happen when I try to put more than about 50 rows in a table.
>2. Tables seem to start on whichever page they feel like. Sometimes,
>tables would start on page 1 and other times on page 2. How do I control
>this?
>3. I start my document with
>
>doc=SimpleDocTemplate(filename=self.outputfile,allowSplitting=1)
I think this is the table of doom problem which was reported earlier. I
have attempted to fix this in the CVS version.
-- 
Robin Becker