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

[Roberto Alsina]

On Friday 29 May 2009 11:41:06 Paul Barrass wrote:

> 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.


Not really :-(

If I put spaceBefore 40 and spaceAfter 40, the paragraphs still overlap, 
because the space in the middle is merged.

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