[reportlab-users] snaking columns?

[Paul McNett]

mike wrote:
> hello  -
> 
> 
> is it possible to generate pdf files that have snaking columns of data 
> that fill one printed page at a time?
> 
> eg:
> 
> item 1   item 5   item 9
> item 2   item 6   item 10
> item 3   item 7   item 11
> item 4   item 8   item 12
> ----------------------------page break
> item 13  item 17  item 21
> item 14  item 18  item 22
> item 15  item 19  item 23
> item 16  item 20  item 24

The Dabo report writer can handle this... barely. Dabo is a 3-tier 
database application framework, and the report writer/designer wraps 
Reportlab and provides classic "banded" database report features. You 
just specify the number of columns (default is 1) and it simply divides 
the available width by that to come up with each column's width. Future 
improvements will include specifying variable column widths, and running 
across and then down. IOW:

item 1             item 2                 item 3
item 4... etc.

See our screencasts at: http://dabodev.com/documentation

-- 
Paul McNett
http://paulmcnett.com
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