[reportlab-users] snaking columns?

[Andy Robinson]

You could just create a page template with three frames in Platypus and make each item a separate paragraph.  Then it would snake as expected. 

- Andy

 
-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 21:55:40 
To:Support list for users of Reportlab software<reportlab-users at reportlab.com>
Subject: Re: [reportlab-users] snaking columns?

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
> 
> 
> ...etc
> 

not so far. It's quite a hard problem.
-- 
Robin Becker
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