[reportlab-users] valign with large fonts

[Arkadi Colson]

Is there a way to let the alignment (MIDDLE) take the paragraph fontsize 
into account instead of the cellstyle fontsize?

Thanks!

On 06/04/2008 01:09 PM, Arkadi Colson wrote:

> Ah ok I see. I use fontsize in the Paragraph style so the "- fontsize" 

> = "- 0". I will put the fontsize from Paragraph style to Cell style.

>

> Thanks for the info!

>    Arkadi

>

> Robin Becker wrote:

>> Arkadi Colson wrote:

>>> So the only option will be detecting the font hight some way and 

>>> using bottom padding to enlarge the cell?

>>>

>> .......

>>

>> Arkadi,

>> the code that does the alignment for simple cells looks like this

>> just = cellstyle.alignment

>> valign = cellstyle.valign

>> ........

>> vals = string.split(str(cellval), "\n")

>> n = len(vals)

>> leading = cellstyle.leading

>> fontsize = cellstyle.fontsize

>> if valign=='BOTTOM':

>>     y = rowpos + cellstyle.bottomPadding+n*leading-fontsize

>> elif valign=='TOP':

>>     y = rowpos + rowheight - cellstyle.topPadding - fontsize

>> elif valign=='MIDDLE':

>>     #tim roberts pointed out missing fontsize correction 2004-10-04

>>     y = rowpos + (cellstyle.bottomPadding + 

>> rowheight-cellstyle.topPadding+n*leading)/2.0 - fontsize

>> else:

>>     raise......

>>

>> so the valign style attribute should be doing something different. 

>> Can you send an example piece of text together with the style that's 

>> supposed to be being used eg font, font size leading etc etc. Then 

>> I'll try and have a look to see what's going on.

>>

>>>>>

>> ........nt size is variable.

>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>> Thanks in advance,

>>>>>    Arkadi

>>>>> nfo/reportlab-users

>>>>>

>>>>

>>>> I have a feeling that valign should be middle, but the vertical 

>>>> alignment has always caused trouble so it might be busted.

>>>

>>

>>

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