[reportlab-users] Is borderPadding supposed to do this?

[Paul Barrass]

Roberto Alsina wrote:

> Trying this program:

>

> <snip>

> I expected to see two largish paragraphs in ugly colours, with big padding, 

> one below the other.

>

> What I got was the second paragraph drawn over the first one.

>

>   


The borders on Paragraphs don't take up space in the flow of the 
document - you'll need to make the Paragraph bigger - adding 
spaceBefore=40 to the ParagraphStyle might make the script produce what 
you were expecting.

Paul Barrass.