[reportlab-users] LayoutError: Splitting error

[Robin Becker]

dimitri pater wrote:

> Hi,

> 

> Does anyone hear has a solution for the following error:

> 

>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/reportlab/platypus/doctemplate.py",

> line 580, in handle_flowable

>    raise LayoutError("Splitting error(n==%d) on page %d in\n%s" % (n,

> self.page,f.identity(30)))

> LayoutError: Splitting error(n==2) on page 6 in

> <Table at 139136748 4 rows x 5 cols> with cell(0,0) containing

> 'Component'

> 

> I suspect it has something to do with the table I am trying to create and

> the PageBreak() function . I use Platypus. Your help is appreciated and if

> you need more info, please let me know.

> 

> kind regards,

> Dimitri

........

without seeing a sample code it's hard to say exactly. That error happens when

1) A flowable fails to be added to a frame
2) Splitting succeeds
3) The first part of the split is not  one of 
(PageBreak,SlowPageBreak,ActionFlowable)
4) The attempt to add the first part of the split also fails.

It usually implies  something fairly daft about the content. The split 
succeeding is supposed to mean that the first part should fit, and then the fit 
fails when you actually use it.
-- 
Robin Becker