[reportlab-users] Crash when creating vertical spans on split tables

[Robin Becker]

On 04/11/2011 17:06, Aaron Barlow wrote:

> I had that same problem. I fixed it by adjusting the source code in tables.py from:

>

> t = sum([V[x]+M.get(x,0) for x in xrange(x0,x1)]) on line 205

>

> to

>

> for x in xrange(x0, x1):

>                  if V[x] is None:

>                          continue

>                  t += V[x]+M.get(x,0)

>

> The error is because spanning in PDF tables creates a "super-cell" and a vertical split of a table cell isn't defined.  I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong about that. However, for my needs, changing the source code above removed the error.

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Not sure that this is right, but I will try and check at the weekend.
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Robin Becker