[reportlab-users] Position Paragraph or how to get current position

[Mike Driscoll]

Hi Andy,


On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Andy Robinson <andy at reportlab.com> wrote:


> Mike, on the table:  you can draw any flowable in canvas mode if you first

> call

>    object.wrap(availWidth, availHeight), which will return the width

> and height within that space that it actually wants to use.

> Practically, width was never used and is always the width of the

> frame, but height tells you where your table will end.

>

>

> This height will be to the bottom of the table.  We define the edges

> as a zero-width line at the midpoint of the bottom border.  However,

> by default all table cells have 3 points of padding between the

> content and edges (overrideable by you) on the inside; there is no

> padding around the inside.  So to put a paragraph straight after,

> you'll want to set its baseline a bit lower.

>

> This is going from memory as I don't have a development environment to

> hand.  Hope it helps...



I think I got the padding removed using the table's style options,
specifically BOTTOMPADDING and TOPPADDING. But I'm still not sure how I can
control the indent of the following flowables. I really want to move the
Paragraph object that follows the table to the left about half an inch.

- Mike
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