[reportlab-users] Line splitting for long tables

[Robin Becker]

Benjamin Higgins wrote:

> Hey,

> 

> We've been using ReportLab with great results except for one hang-up -- we

> have some tables that are too wide for the page sometimes.   It's caused by

> long text in one of the cells.  We need a solution for splitting text to

> multiple lines so that the table will fit on the page.  Any suggestions on

> how to do this, even a rudimentary solution?  I'm thinking of writing an

> algorithm myself to split long text to multiple lines but I'm sure it's not

> going to be very good.


Table cells can contain flowables or lists of flowables so you can use paragraph 
flowables inside them. Alternatively if using Paragraphs is too heavy there's a 
simpleSplit function in reportlab/lib/utils.py that may do what you want. Of 
course any kind of splitting mechanism requires that we know the desired width, 
font, font size etc etc.
--
Robin Becker