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From: "Joseph L. Casale" <jcasale@activenetwerx.com>
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Subject: Formatting text in a table with reportlab
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I sent off a msg to the reportlab list but didn't find an answer, hoping so=
meone
here might have come across this...

I am generating a table to hold text oriented by the specification of the l=
abel
it gets printed on. I need to compress the vertical size of the table a lit=
tle
more but the larger text in (1, 0) and (1, 1) as compared to the rest cause=
s it
to migrate downwards away from the upper boundary of the cell that it's in.

Is there a better way to accomplish this or some way I can prevent the
behavior? I have tried adjusting with the rowHeight in Table() but for the
larger text in (1, 0) and (1, 1) to not migrate out of the cell, the overal=
l
cell height has to be too large. The ('VALIGN', (1, 0), (1, 1), 'TOP') seem=
s to
only have a minimal affect if the rowHeight is still larger than what I wan=
t
versus [None] for example.

        # Define table data.
        data =3D [
            ['foo', xxx, yyy, zzz, www],
            ['bar', ttt, uuu],
            ['\n'.join((iii, jjj, kkk))],
        ]

        # Define table dimensions.
        table =3D Table(
            data,
            [.625 * inch] + [None] * 4,
            [None] * 3
        )

        # Define table styles.
        table_style =3D [
            ('VALIGN', (0, 0), (-1, -1), 'BOTTOM'),
            ('VALIGN', (1, 0), (1, 1), 'TOP'),
            ('ALIGN', (0, 0), (0, 2), 'LEFT'),
            ('ALIGN', (1, 0), (1, 1), 'LEFT'),
            ('ALIGN', (2, 0), (2, 0), 'CENTER'),
            ('SPAN', (2, 1), (4, 1)),
            ('SPAN', (0, 2), (4, 2)),
            ('FONTSIZE', (0, 0), (0, 2), 10),
            ('TEXTFONT', (0, 0), (0, 2), 'Times'),
            ('FONTSIZE', (1, 0), (1, 1), 18),
            ('TEXTFONT', (1, 0), (1, 1), 'Times-Bold')
        ]

Thanks!
jlc