[reportlab-users] Aligning tablle example

[Mike Driscoll]

Andy Robinson wrote:

> 2009/7/8 Mike Driscoll <mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us>:

>   

>> I am trying to figure out how to left or right align an entire table.

>> However, the docs only talk about aligning the cells within a table. Can

>> someone tell me how to do this, preferably with some kind of example?

>>     

>

> Tables have a property 'hAlign', in common with many other flowables.

> Sorry it wasn't documented - inside ReportLab we use the RML layer on

> top so tend not to notice.

>

> There is one example in the test suite, test_platypus_pleaseturnover.py

>

> - Andy


I tried that, using the following code:

<code>

story = []
doc = SimpleDocTemplate('myDoc.pdf', pagesize=(8.5*inch, 11*inch))
                       
data = [['', 'Hours', 'Amount'],
        ['ct', '24.00', '456.84'],
        ['h', '16.00', '310.56'],
        ['r', '32.00', '621.12'],
        ['v', '8.00', '155.28']]
tbl = Table(data, hAlign=TA_LEFT)

story.append(tbl)
doc.build(story)

</code>

This creates an pdf with the table centered. I take it that there's a 
different way to enable this?

- Mike