[reportlab-users] valign with large fonts

[Arkadi Colson]

Ah ok I see. I use fontsize in the Paragraph style so the "- fontsize" = 
"- 0". I will put the fontsize from Paragraph style to Cell style.

Thanks for the info!
    Arkadi

Robin Becker wrote:

> Arkadi Colson wrote:

>> So the only option will be detecting the font hight some way and 

>> using bottom padding to enlarge the cell?

>>

> .......

>

> Arkadi,

> the code that does the alignment for simple cells looks like this

> just = cellstyle.alignment

> valign = cellstyle.valign

> ........

> vals = string.split(str(cellval), "\n")

> n = len(vals)

> leading = cellstyle.leading

> fontsize = cellstyle.fontsize

> if valign=='BOTTOM':

>     y = rowpos + cellstyle.bottomPadding+n*leading-fontsize

> elif valign=='TOP':

>     y = rowpos + rowheight - cellstyle.topPadding - fontsize

> elif valign=='MIDDLE':

>     #tim roberts pointed out missing fontsize correction 2004-10-04

>     y = rowpos + (cellstyle.bottomPadding + 

> rowheight-cellstyle.topPadding+n*leading)/2.0 - fontsize

> else:

>     raise......

>

> so the valign style attribute should be doing something different. Can 

> you send an example piece of text together with the style that's 

> supposed to be being used eg font, font size leading etc etc. Then 

> I'll try and have a look to see what's going on.

>

>>>>

> ........nt size is variable.

>>>>

>>>>

>>>> Thanks in advance,

>>>>    Arkadi

>>>> nfo/reportlab-users

>>>>

>>>

>>> I have a feeling that valign should be middle, but the vertical 

>>> alignment has always caused trouble so it might be busted.

>>

>

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