[reportlab-users] How to properly get alignments of flowables right...

[Tim Roberts]

Brower Jason wrote:

> ...

> But it looks like I have to make adjustments from the bottom left corner

> of the object.  It doesn't seem logical that way.  Is there something I

> am missing about doing zero point of the object at the top left of

> itself?

>   


Well, there's a historical basis for this.  Reportlab generates PDF,
which is a dialect of Postscript.  Postscript uses the Cartesian
coordinate model for its axes.  So, in order to have the whole page be
in quadrant 1 where X and Y are both positive, that puts the origin at
the lower left.

You can use scale (by 1 and -1) and transform to turn it into a more
traditional printing model, if you're careful.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.