[reportlab-users] keepWithNext causing first page to be blank

[Adam Patt]

I have two paragraphs and then a really long table that spans multiple pages.  I set keepWithNext=True for the first two paragraph parts, but when I render the page, it will create the first page as blank and start on the second page. How do I keep this from happening?  If I can't keep it from happening, is there a way for me to remove the first page before I write to disk?

the code is something like 

    doc = SimpleDocTemplate(filename, leftMargin=qinch,rightMargin=qinch,topMargin=qinch,bottomMargin=qinch)
    styles = getSampleStyleSheet() 
    Story = []
    text = Paragraph("Schedule", styles['Heading1'])
    text.keepWithNext = True
    Story.append(text)

    data = <very large table here that goes off the page>
    t = Table(data, repeatRows=1, repeatCols=1)
    Story.appen(t)
    doc.pagesize = landscape(LETTER)
    doc.build(Story)

If I don't use keepWithNext, the table will be pushed to the next page and if I don't have the text there, the table starts on the first page just fine.  Is there some mystery object I need to set the keepWithNext on that would go before my first bit of text?



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