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Pedro Ghilardi
Pedro Ghilardi

Reputation: 1964

Word wrap on report lab PDF table

I'm using the Table of Report Lab library to print a table on a PDF report. I would like to know if it's possible to configure the table to perform an automatic wrapping of the content of a cell.

For example, I have a text that doesn't fit on a cell inside a column. I would like that the table performs the wrap automatically adjusting the content of the cells to fit on the columns width. Is it possible?

Upvotes: 18

Views: 23250

Answers (3)

Sourabh Gupta
Sourabh Gupta

Reputation: 77

*whole code of word wrap

from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import A4
from reportlab.lib.styles import getSampleStyleSheet
from reportlab.platypus import Paragraph, Table, TableStyle
from reportlab.lib.enums import TA_JUSTIFY, TA_LEFT, TA_CENTER
from reportlab.lib import colors

# bodytext  style used for wrapping  data on flowables 
styles = getSampleStyleSheet()
styleN = styles["BodyText"]
#used alignment if required
styleN.alignment = TA_LEFT

styleBH = styles["Normal"]
styleBH.alignment = TA_CENTER


hdescrpcion = Paragraph('''<b>descrpcion</b>''', styleBH)
hpartida = Paragraph('''<b>partida</b>''', styleBH)


descrpcion = Paragraph('long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long line ', styleN)
partida = Paragraph('1', styleN)

data= [[hdescrpcion, hpartida],
       [partida ,descrpcion]]

table = Table(data)

table.setStyle(TableStyle([
                       ('INNERGRID', (0,0), (-1,-1), 0.25, colors.black),
                       ('BOX', (0,0), (-1,-1), 0.25, colors.black),
                       ]))

c = canvas.Canvas("a.pdf", pagesize=A4)
table.wrapOn(c, 50, 50)
table.drawOn(c, 100,600)
c.save()

Upvotes: 1

pako anguiano
pako anguiano

Reputation: 31

My solution, force newline in the string:

def __chopLine(line, maxline):

    cant = len(line) / maxline
    cant += 1
    strline = ""
    index = maxline
    for i in range(1,cant):
        index = maxline * i
        strline += "%s\n" %(line[(index-maxline):index])
    strline += "%s\n" %(line[index:])
    return strline

Upvotes: 2

David Raznick
David Raznick

Reputation: 18465

You can put any flowable in a table element. It is probably good practice to have all table elements as flowables, so they can be styled the same. For your case you will most likely need a Paragraph flowable. eg.

styles = getSampleStyleSheet()
text = Paragraph("long line",
              styles['Normal'])

You can put `text' into the data you feed to a table and it will automatically wrap.

Upvotes: 24

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