[reportlab-users] bug with justified text?

[Volker Haas]

Hi.

I might have found a bug related to justified text. The "bug" only 
appears in a custom flowable I implemented, therefore I might be doing 
something wrong. For that reason I can't easily supply a minimal example 
just the diff of my "patch":

       1 <http://hg/reportlab/rev/5cdf5f9cb2c5#l1> --- a/src/reportlab/platypus/paragraph.py	Wed Jan 21 15:51:15 2009 +0100
       2 <http://hg/reportlab/rev/5cdf5f9cb2c5#l2> +++ b/src/reportlab/platypus/paragraph.py	Wed Jan 21 15:55:11 2009 +0100
       3 <http://hg/reportlab/rev/5cdf5f9cb2c5#l3> @@ -322,7 +322,7 @@
       4 <http://hg/reportlab/rev/5cdf5f9cb2c5#l4>      setXPos(tx,offset)
       5 <http://hg/reportlab/rev/5cdf5f9cb2c5#l5>      extraSpace = line.extraSpace
       6 <http://hg/reportlab/rev/5cdf5f9cb2c5#l6>      nSpaces = line.wordCount - 1
       7 <http://hg/reportlab/rev/5cdf5f9cb2c5#l7> -    if last or not nSpaces or abs(extraSpace)<=1e-8 or line.lineBreak:
       8 <http://hg/reportlab/rev/5cdf5f9cb2c5#l8> +    if last or not nSpaces or abs(extraSpace)<=1e-8 or getattr(line, 'lineBreak', None):
       9 <http://hg/reportlab/rev/5cdf5f9cb2c5#l9>          _putFragLine(offset, tx, line)  #no space modification
      10 <http://hg/reportlab/rev/5cdf5f9cb2c5#l10>      else:
      11 <http://hg/reportlab/rev/5cdf5f9cb2c5#l11>          tx.setWordSpace(extraSpace / float(nSpaces))


The last lines of the traceback without the patch are:

    if last or not nSpaces or abs(extraSpace)<=1e-8 or line.lineBreak:
AttributeError: ParaLines instance has no attribute 'lineBreak'

That appens when calling the reportlab paragraph.draw method.

I hope this makes sense to anyone ;)

Regards,
Volker

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