Re: Using landscape in DocTemplates

On 01/08/2014 01:07 PM, Mike Driscoll wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I thought I had this figured out, but I guess not. I am creating a
> SimpleDocTemplate like this:
>
> self.doc = SimpleDocTemplate(fileObj, pagesize=letter,
>                               leftMargin=l_margin)

Try:

pagesize=landscape(letter)

>
> And then building it like this:
>
> self.doc.build(self.story,
>                         onFirstPage=self.create_pdf
>
> In the create_pdf method, I tell reportlab that I want the canvas to be
> in landscape:
>
> self.c = canvas
> self.c.setPageSize( landscape(letter) )
>
> Unfortunately, if I create a table or other flowable that is too large
> to fit on the first page, the second page ends up being in portrait
> mode. I tried adding the second kwarg for the build operation
> (onLaterPages) and told it to also set the size to landscape, but it
> doesn't appear to work correctly...the second page goes landscape, but
> the table is mostly missing with only the last row or so showing up on
> the page. So somehow it seems that reportlab is drawing the table on the
> second page as if it were in portrait mode and then when it saves it, it
> flips it to landscape?
>
> Is there some way to tell the template to just be in landscape mode
> across all pages?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -------------------
> Mike Driscoll
>
> Blog: http://blog.pythonlibrary.org
>
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