[reportlab-users] How to change Table cell font size

[Brenda J. Butler]

On 02/16/2012 11:46 AM, Mike Driscoll wrote:

> Hi,

> 

> How do I apply a smaller font size to the cells in a Table object? I've tried passing a dict to the cellStyle parameter and a CellStyle object to it, but I either get invalid index error or syntax errors. I can't find an example anywhere about that. Could someone point me in the right direction? Thanks!

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> Mike Driscoll

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I was just working with tables the other day, here's an example (hope it helps).  I'm not sure which of the
imports you need for this but included all my imports so you can see what they are.

from reportlab.platypus import *
from reportlab.lib.styles import getSampleStyleSheet, ParagraphStyle
from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import letter
from reportlab.lib import colors
from reportlab.rl_config import defaultPageSize
from reportlab.lib.units import inch

    tt = Table (inv_summary_table,
                colWidths = [50, 50, 40, 50, 150])

    tt.setStyle (TableStyle ([
                ('BACKGROUND', (0, 0), (-1, -1), colors.lightgrey),
                ('FONTSIZE', (0, 1), (-1, 1), 14),
                ('FONTSIZE', (0, 4), (-1, 4), 14),
                ('TEXTFONT', (0, 1), (-1, 1), 'Times-Bold'),
                ('TEXTFONT', (0, 4), (-1, 4), 'Times-Bold'),
                ('ALIGNMENT', (1, 2), (1, 3), 'DECIMAL'), # hours c1 l1,2
                ('ALIGNMENT', (3, 2), (3, 3), 'DECIMAL'), # rate  c3 l1,2
                ('ALIGNMENT', (4, 2), (4, 3), 'DECIMAL'), # amts  c4 l1,2
                ('ALIGNMENT', (4, 4), (4, 4), 'DECIMAL'), # total amt, c4 l3
                ('SPAN', (0, 1), (4, 1)),
                ('SPAN', (2, 4), (3, 4)),
                ('RIGHTPADDING', (2, 2), (-1, -1), 20),
                ]))

I found examples of this in the reportlab documentation in the tables chapter.  It's a pdf file, can be downloaded from
http://www.reportlab.com/software/documentation/
first link under "Reportlab Toolkit" page.

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