[reportlab-users] SimpleDocTemplate Margin Problems

[David Hughes]

Lucas Howell wrote:

> Hi All,

>

> I'm having a problem when using the SimpleDocTemplate with Paragraphs

> that cause an unpredictable margin.

>

> Basically I specify a margin of 0.5 inches in the Template and it

> works just fine when Table Flowables are added to the Story, but when

> I add Paragraphs (with leftIndent=0 specified) the margin is like 0.6

> inches or more.  Thus my various flowables don't line up on page

> (paragraphs have some extra mysterious indentation).  There's got to

> be some extra padding or something in the SimpleDocTemplate or

> Paragraphs that I don't know about, but everything is zeroed out, so

> it doesn't make sense.

>   

As I understand it, DocTemplate puts the paragraph into a Frame (see 
platypus/frames.py) which has padding around it that defaults to 6 
points - just under 0.1 inches. The call from doctemplate.py to 
instantiate Frame doesn't include any padding arguments, so the default 
setting is used.

Regards,

David Hughes
Forestfield Software
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