[reportlab-users] Column widths when not specified

Stephan Richter srichter at cosmos.phy.tufts.edu
Fri Mar 16 07:56:49 EDT 2007


On Friday 16 March 2007 03:57, Dinu Gherman wrote:

> I posted a very similar question yesterday. I'm afraid your question

> might contain the answer already. After tweaking my test sample (see

> attached) I conclude that automatic column width spacing does not

> work as soon as flowables (including Paragraphs) are used. If so,

> then I guess the workaround is to declare the column widths manually.

> Of course, then the question arrises if this cannot be automated?


The reason I asked was becaue I saw this behavior in the RML test suite. Have
a look at the table in test 006:

http://developer.reportlab.com/rsrc/rml_examples/test_006_barcodes.rml
http://developer.reportlab.com/rsrc/rml_examples/test_006_barcodes.pdf

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student)
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