[reportlab-users] Vertical Align in Tables With Large Fonts.

[sp3ktr]

Cheers for that John!
It was driving me crazy.


On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:23:07 -0800, jpywtora at calpoly.edu
<jpywtora at calpoly.edu> wrote:
> On Friday 03 December 2004 10:05 pm, sp3ktr wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 10:24:09 -0800, jpywtora at calpoly.edu
> > <jpywtora at calpoly.edu> wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > If the contents are not in a Paragraph flowable, try using one.  Assuming
> > > this is a text cell.
> >
> > They are text cells.  I tried it with a Paragraph object but to no avail.
> >
> > > Outside of this more than likely would need to see a small code snippet.
> >
> > Here is a quick example. In the pdf, both the text cells and the
> > Paragraph flowable still sit to the bottom of the fields (i'm assuming
> > the VALIGN directive in the table cell should align the whole
> > Paragraph object?):
> 
> Ok first the code that shows VALIGN working.  Quick answer is your table row
> heights were two small.
> data = (
>     ('Nov', 'Dec'),
>     ('Nov', Paragraph('<fontsize="20">test</font>', styleSheet['Normal']))
> )
> t1 = Table(
>     data,
>     (200, 200),
>     (100, 100),
>     (
>         ('GRID', (0, 0),(-1, -1),1, colors.red),
>         ('VALIGN', (0, 0), (-1, -1), 'MIDDLE'),
>         ('SIZE', (0, 0), (-1, -1), 20)
>     )
> )
> story.append(t1)
> 
> I chose to put the table style right in the constructor which is my typical
> way.  Actually I put the styles in a config module and just import them where
> I want them.  When you set up the table...
> 
> t1 = Table(data,(200,200),(40))  <== Your code
> 
> Your forst row has a height of 40, but the second is unspecified.  Which is ok
> in some conditions.  However, in your case neither was enough to see the
> VALIGN working.  I believe without my changes the cell with the paragraph was
> correct and in the middle, however due to the cell size along with padding it
> was hard to actually see it.  So, you may need to specify something more than
> the default for the padding which is large enough to cause the frustration
> you may have experienced.
> 
> Johnny P
> 
> 
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sp3ktr