[reportlab-users] PTOContainer split problem

[Robin Becker]

Yoann Roman wrote:

> Robin Becker wrote:

>> Yoann Roman wrote:

>>> I'm running across a PTOContainer problem when the content is a single

> very

>>> large paragraph. Attached are two files: a simple Python script and a

> large

>>> text file (GNU GPL, in this case).

>>>

>>> If I try to use the doc.build([pto]) line, I get this:

>> .......

>> In fact I tried your large text by inserting this into our standard test

> case

>> reportlab/test/test_platypus_pleaseturnover.py at line 127

>>

>>

>> 	textxxx=open('/tmp/yoannroman/gnu.txt','r').read()

>> 	ptoblob('First Try at a PTO',[Paragraph(textxxx,bt)],t0,h0)

>>

>> and this works even if the style is a bit busted.

> 

> I was taking a similar approach this morning in troubleshooting this. Turns

> out I was importing Paragraph as:

> 

> from reportlab.platypus.para import Paragraph

> 

> Whereas test_platypus_pleaseturnover.py uses:

> 

> from reportlab.platypus.paragraph import Paragraph

> 

> I hadn't noticed the former was experimental. Changing my pto_test.py file

> to use the latter fixes the problem. I'm not sure what the official status

> of para.py is, so this may not be a bug at all.

> 

> Thanks for the help,

> 


Well spotted; that explains a lot. I suppose that para.py is no good in this 
instance for some reason.
-- 
Robin Becker