[reportlab-users] Problem with KeepInFrame in 2.1

[Roberto Alsina]

On Monday 01 September 2008 07:05:54 Robin Becker wrote:

> Roberto Alsina wrote:

> ........ok like.

>

> > Sorry I was not clear.

> >

> > Look at the preformatted code fragments (the ones with beige background).

> > They are supposed to have a border all around them, but only the left

> > edge is shown,and the rest is not visible.

> >

> > If I make the border thicker, it is visible all around, but the left edge

> > is always thicker.

> >

> > Looking a bit harder, it seems the problem is that the border is

> > apparently drawn "outside" the XPreformatted's area. Since the

> > KeepInFrame clips like this:

> >

> >                 p = canv.beginPath()

> >                 p.rect(x, y, self.width,self.height)

> >                 canv.clipPath(p,stroke=0)

> >

> > The border gets clipped. I don't know why the left edge is still visible,

> > though.

>

> I just got tow colleagues to look at this document with various viewers and

> they both agreed with me that the borders look fine. It is certainly true

> that keepInFrame will brutally truncate stuff if you use that mode.

> Truncate should logically only be used when you are debugging (there may be

> other use cases, but I can't think of them right now). We don't normally

> want to truncate content.


I'll just switch the default to shrink.


> ReportLab's box model is arguably wrong as we don't really deal with stroke

> width.


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