[reportlab-users] colwidths question

[Jessup, David]

One more thing:  If I recall correctly, if you don't specify the
colWidths, they'll shrink to just fitting the displayed content; you
only need to specify the colWidths if your table width would otherwise
not fit on a page.

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[mailto:reportlab-users-bounces at reportlab.com] On Behalf Of Jessup,
David
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 9:12 PM
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Subject: Re: [reportlab-users] colwidths question


What I tend to do is perform the following import:
 

> from reportlab.lib.units import unit

 
where unit is "inch", "cm", "mm", or "pica".  I can then set colWidths =
(inch, 2.5 * inch, inch, inch) in units I can measure with a ruler.

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From: reportlab-users-bounces at reportlab.com
[mailto:reportlab-users-bounces at reportlab.com] On Behalf Of James Yoo
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 5:58 PM
To: Support list for users of Reportlab software
Subject: [reportlab-users] colwidths question


Hi... me again..

There is something I am not understanding about colWidths...
I'm trying to create a Table with colWidths = (28,10,10,10), those are
the widest character lengths of the strings in my columns...

 I'm obviously not understanding about the units for the column widths
because I get a really squished table.

Is there an idiom for setting exact widths for columns that I am
missing?

thanks,
James


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