[reportlab-users] Tabular Form w/Platypus

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Sebastian Ware wrote:


> You can't just add text, you need to add flowables. Story is a list of 

> flowables.


Sebastian,

   Understand the concepts, still working on the implementation details.


> You would probably want to try story.append(Paragraph("Economic Component 

> Pairs", normal))


   OK.


> To learn more about how things work, take a look in the ReportLab User

> Guide and Graphics Guide. I learnt the basics there. Also, take a look at

> the tests. They aren't easy to comprehend, but do help if you have some

> patience


   I've read the User Guide many times, looked at the tests, demos, and other
example data. Translating these different examples to my needs is where I
keep missing the point.

   For example, in doctemplate.py, lines 950-951 are:

  SimpleDocTemplate('doctemplate.pdf').build(objects_to_draw,
             onFirstPage=myFirstPage,onLaterPages=myLaterPages)

I haven't defined myFirstPage and myLaterPages because these are one-page
reports. Leaving them out of the build arguments produces that string of
errors terminating in 
AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'getKeepWithNext'.

Thanks,

Rich

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