[reportlab-users] keepWithNext problem

[Wietse Jacobs]

Thanks for your quick respons.

On 11/2/2007 6:20:38 PM, Robin Becker wrote:

> I always hated keepWith next; this is a bug as presumably we

shouldn't.

I presume you mean you don't like the implementation? As a feature I
find 
it very useful ;) .


> Are you really trying to keep a paragraph and a Drawing together? If

> so I think you need to use some other kind of container as Drawings

> are normally particularly nasty about what things can be set on them.


Ok, I'll try to wrap it (I believe there is a `box` method somewhere in 
the examples).


> Now fixed in SVN (or perhaps a different bug is introduced)


I'll get the snapshot and try it out.


>> -----------------------------------------------------------

>> from reportlab.platypus import *

>> from reportlab.lib.styles import ParagraphStyle from

>> reportlab.graphics.shapes import Drawing, Rect

>> 

>> 

>> normal = ParagraphStyle(name='Normal',

>>                         fontName='Helvetica',

>>                         fontSize=8.5,

>>                         leading=11)

>> 

>> header = ParagraphStyle(name='Heading1',

>>                         parent=normal,

>>                         fontSize=14,

>>                         leading=19,

>>                         spaceAfter=6,

>>                         keepWithNext=1)

>> 

>> d = Drawing(400, 200)

>> d.add(Rect(50, 50, 300, 100))

>> 

>> story = [Paragraph("The section header", header), d]

>> 

>> doc = SimpleDocTemplate('test.pdf')

>> doc.build(story)

> .......

> 

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-Wietse Jacobs