[reportlab-users] Two Images next to each other

Tobias Greitzke tobias.greitzke at togis.com
Tue Apr 15 05:33:20 EDT 2014



:-) yes indeed - that's the reason why I'm asking. But as I'm new to

reportlab I wanted to make sure just in case there is an other way, but
if not I use a table.
Thanks for the quick reply Andy!


Am 15.04.14 11:11, schrieb Andy Robinson:

> Why "without tables"? A table is exactly the proper way to line

> things up next to each other...

>

> There is a general "tables are evil" meme circulating which came from

> the CSS world and the desire to have responsive layouts which

> resize/reshuffle as browsers shrink. But paper has a known size.

> Just make a table style with no borders and it becomes very easy.

>

> - Andy

>

> On 15 April 2014 10:04, Tobias Greitzke <tobias.greitzke at togis.com> wrote:

>> Hello,

>>

>> I need to put a bunch of images at the end of a document where I want to

>> place the images left to right next to each other.

>>

>> I use platypus to build the pdf and so far I managed to put them in a two

>> column frame with ParagraphAndImage. But unfortunately that's not what I

>> need. I want them left to right and not like in the two column frame top to

>> bottom. Also I would like to put a text under each image. This is what I got

>> so far:

>> http://fsp.humedica.org/e01/e011/report.pdf?rs=1424

>>

>> Is there a proper way to do this without tables? I'm thinking of something

>> like a 50% frame that holds the Image and a Paragraph after each and then is

>> placed as a flowable into the document. But I can't figure out how to do

>> that.

>>

>> Can anyone give me a hint?

>>

>> Thanks,

>> Tobias

>>

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