[reportlab-users] [BUG] Table cell too big

[Dirk Holtwick]

Henning von Bargen schrieb:

>> From: Dirk Holtwick <dirk.holtwick at gmail.com>

>> Subject: Re: [reportlab-users] [BUG] Table cell too big

>>

>> Any new informations on this? 

>> Is there another way to avoid errors with too large table cells?

> 

> I don't think so. You'd have to extend the Table class.


Thanks Henning. I have spend some time on this issue and finally I did a 
dirty hack to give the "KeepInFrame" elements automatically the maximum 
sizes available. Anyone interested can have a look at the  the results 
in my XHTML2PDF code in SVN: <http://www.xhtml2pdf.com>

I think the whole table implementation could gain from a redesign and 
rewrite. After having a closer look at the guts of Reportlab I am 
missing well documented code and self speaking variable names. I can 
therefore imagine that it is difficult to maintain this code. But this 
is normal for a "grown" project but maybe at some point comes the time 
to do a rewrite to get efficiency back in the development.

But anyways, for me it works now and that's all I need for the moment.

BTW: I also did some changes to the paragraph implementation because 
underlinings and strikes where not very aware of the current font sizes 
used. Hope we get three get in the new paragraph implementation soon 
once the SVN of Reportlab is open for us.

Dirk