[reportlab-users] Graphics and titles

[JP Glutting]

Thank you! That is a nice trick. I will certainly use that at some 
point, maybe even on this project.

Cheers,
JP

Knud Riishøjgård wrote:

> Another approach to solving your problem could be: Use the 
> KeepTogether flowable.
>
>
> completelistofparagraphs = []
> do this for each pie/chart:
>   listofparagraphs = []
>   listofparagraphs.append(Paragraph('Header', style))
>   drawing = shapes.Drawing(width, height)
>   pie = Pie() #any other kind of chart
>   #do a lot w pie :-)
>   drawing.add(pie)
>   listofparagraphs.append(drawing)
>   completelistofparagraphs.append(KeepTogether(listofparagraphs))
>
> I hope the above makes sense - I'm using KeepTogethers a lot.
>
> Best regards
> Knud Riishojgaard
>
>
>
> JP Glutting wrote:
>
>> Ok, I am trying a workaround for this thing, and it is giving me some 
>> odd errors. I tried breaking the string up into smaller strings, and 
>> printing each one seperately (with an offset, but I never get to the 
>> part where I calibrate that). When I do this, i get this error:
>>
>> AssertionError: expected one category name but foud 6 in axis.
>>    categories = ['1. survey question']
>>
>> Any idea what is going on here? It looks to me like the strings i am 
>> putting into this drawing are being interpreted as tick labels 
>> (almost certainly, because the function that returns the error is 
>> called makeTickLabels). I don't understand why that is - tha ta 
>> single string can be priinted, but multiple strings are intepreted as 
>> labels.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> JP
>>
>>
>> JP Glutting wrote:
>>
>>> No, no problem. I found it - just a little glitch. I only imported 
>>> Drawing from reportlab.graphics.shapes when I originally wrote this 
>>> (can't remember why), so I had to go tweak the imports, that is all.
>>>
>>> It looks really nice. The only problem is that I have some titles I 
>>> want to wrap (multi line). I am digging for tricks on doing that, 
>>> but if you happen to know offhand, that would be great.
>>>
>>> Thanks again!
>>> JP
>>>
>>> Andy Robinson wrote:
>>>
>>>>> It does not seem to be in platypus, pdfgen or pdfbase.
>>>>>
>>>>> Or do you mean PDFString?
>>>>>
>>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> reportlab.graphics.shapes.String:
>>>>
>>>> class String(Shape):
>>>>    """Not checked against the spec, just a way to make something work.
>>>>    Can be anchored left, middle or end."""
>>>>
>>>>    # to do.
>>>>    _attrMap = AttrMap(
>>>>        x = AttrMapValue(isNumber),
>>>>        y = AttrMapValue(isNumber),
>>>>        text = AttrMapValue(isString),
>>>>        fontName = AttrMapValue(None),
>>>>        fontSize = AttrMapValue(isNumber),
>>>>        fillColor = AttrMapValue(isColorOrNone),
>>>>        textAnchor = AttrMapValue(isTextAnchor),
>>>>        )
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> When you said you were doign charts, I presumed using the
>>>> numerous Drawing and chart-related Shape objects in 
>>>> reportlab/graphics;
>>>> If this is not the case and you are drawing your own with pdfgen, 
>>>> then you have a large new subpackage to explore.  (it's been there 
>>>> for 4 years!)  The graphics guide and reference
>>>> are probably the starting point:
>>>>
>>>>   http://www.reportlab.com/docs/graphguide.pdf
>>>>  http://www.reportlab.com/docs/graphics_reference.pdf
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Andy Robinson
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