[reportlab-users] confused about printing a multipage table.

[JP Glutting]

I don't have tables.pdf either. How old is that?

"test_platypus_tables.pdf" is a single page with no splitting.

Matt, what I have been doing is calculating the number of rows that I 
can fit on a page (about 40, with a size 7 font, plus header), and 
generating a new table on each page with subsets of the data. I just 
keep the header, attach it to the appropriate number of rows, and add a 
table to the set of elements in the document, and then a page break. 
Repeat until you run out of rows. The drawback is that it is hard to 
know how much space you have left at the end, but I just break the page 
and start a new section. Not perfect, but it works, and in the end 
ReportLab saves a lot more time than it takes to handle these things.

Cheers,

JP

matt wilbert wrote:

>Is there somewhere I should look for the "old tests"?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Matt
>
>
>On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:28:10 +0100, Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>matt wilbert wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Robin,
>>>
>>>Thanks for your response
>>>
>>>I just ran test_platypus_tables.py, but it only generated one page of
>>>tables which are not split. I also tried test_table_layout.py, but
>>>that didn't appear to split tables either.
>>>Is there some other example which might split tables?
>>>
>>>
>>>Matt
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>..... I see both test_platypus_tables.pdf and tables.pdf (the old tests). The
>>latter contains explicit and implicit splitting.
>>--
>>Robin Becker
>>
>>    
>>
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