[reportlab-users] drawing inside a table

[Robin Becker]

On 24/02/2011 18:22, Brian O'Reilly wrote:

> I have a simple 3" x .75" bar graph that I want to insert into a table. I

> created the appropriate cell in the table to be 3" wide, but the drawing

> overlaps into adjacent cells... what is the trick to getting the drawing

> centered in the cell?

>

> Kind Regards..

>

> Brian

......

well the table flowable draws flowables using a specific api. That is the 
Flowable.drawOn api. The table/cell also has style attributes to decide where 
the flowable should be drawn. So valign is used to decide whether the cell 
should draw from top down bottom up and alignment is used to determine left 
right center for the x position.

If the cell contains a single flowable then it's best to assume the standard 
behaviour. That means alignment 'LEFT' and valign 'BOTTOM'. Then flowables know 
that they should draw from the left bottom of their area.
-- 
Robin Becker