[reportlab-users] Difference between Table and LongTable

[Robin Becker]

On 03/08/2011 17:02, Félix Labrecque wrote:

> I have recently upgraded from the open source reportlab 2.4 to version 2.5

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> correct my code or find the bug in reportlab and correct it.

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> If seems that longTableOptimize force the tables.py/_calc() function to only use

> 1 line, instead of 6, because when I display the pdf, I can only see 1 line with

> longTableOptimize set to on.

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I'll take a look at the code tomorrow, but the original intent of LongTable was 
to avoid repeatedly scanning the whole table  to determine widths/heights when 
the table splits repeatedly. The idea is to use the widths from the first page 
to determine the column widths for the whole table; it won't work well if the 
first page is not representative of the whole table.
-- 
Robin Becker