[reportlab-users] Newbie Question on Landscape Tables...

[Tim Roberts]

Jared Carlson wrote:

>

> So I'm working with report lab and for the most part getting things to

> work well, but landscape with a table is killing me.  

>

> So I create a couple of frames and define a _landscape function, which

> just rotates the canvas...  I should add that "BuildTable( ... )"

> builds a table...


Do you need to change orientation in the middle?  If you want your
entire document in landscape, you do that when you create the canvas:

    from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import LETTER, landscape
    ...
    canv = canvas.Canvas( 'MyFile.pdf', pagesize=landscape(LETTER) )

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