[reportlab-users] Left Margin Too Wide

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Tim Roberts wrote:


> Right.  If your paper is really 8.5" wide, then that's how you should

> set page size.


   OK, Tim.


> If you need exact placement, then you need to put in the buffers yourself.


   Using what? I seem limited by Spacer(); are there more options?


> By the way, I don't understand this:


   I copied this from one example or another; I've lost track.


> I'm sure this isn't what you meant.  Every run through the loop is

> recreating the table and replacing the value of "e".  When the loop exits,

> all you have is the results of the last iteration.  I suspect you meant

> this:

>

>  e = getTable()

>  for style in tStyles:

>    e.setStyle(style)

>  story.append(e)


   I'm sure you're correct. I probably mixed up two separate examples and
took the worst aspects of each.

   This is what I'm using to learn ReportLab, so I greatly appreciate the
insight.

Thanks,

Rich

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