[reportlab-users] Table inside Table; is not able to split

[Robin Becker]

Harald Armin Massa wrote:

> Hello, my code is roughly:

> 

> result=[["123423","Superdruper","flutsch"],

>               ["1219","nasele","fummer"],

>               ["9128","hupsi","bioung"],

>               [.... many more rows]

> ]

> 

> sdata=[]

> for row in result:

>     sdrow=[]

>     for col in row:

>         sdrow.append(gboxpdf.Paragraph(gboxpdf.pdfencode(col),gboxpdf.stylesheet["Frage"]))

>     sdata.append(sdrow)

> 

> hl=gboxpdf.Paragraph(gboxpdf.pdfencode(self.titel),gboxpdf.stylesheet["Heading3"])

> 

> if len(sdata) > 0:

>   subtbl=Table(sdata,style=gboxpdf.TSTYLEXDATA)

> else:

>   subtbl=Paragraph(" - keine - ",gboxpdf.stylesheet["Normal"])

> 

> Table(data=[[hl,'',''],[subtbl,'','']])

> 

> 

> Everything works fine, as long as the number of rows within result is

> small enough so that the entire "subtbl" fits on one page.

> 

> As soon as subtbl is larger than one page, PDF creation fails with

> "cell to large".

> 

> content of a cell is a table, table bigger then one page: no

> rendering. Any idea how i could fix it (besides splitting result every

> 10 results)

> 

> Best wishes,

> 

> Harald

> 

> 


At present we don't split cells. So if the contents of the inner table gets too 
large then we fail.

-- 
Robin Becker