[reportlab-users] Platypus + dividing lines ?

[Robin Becker]

Tim Roberts wrote:

> reportlab at richardshea.fastmail.fm wrote:

>> Thanks for that. Can I ask another, related question ?

>>

>> I also want thin lines to appear between two paragraphs at some points

>> in the document (so the line would be the width of a column).

>> I'm using 'addFromList' based upon a list of paragraphs to build the

>> story and so I'm not sure how I can do this (I suppose I could make the

>> line an image but that seems a bit clunky). I can't, as far as I can

>> see, use absolute coordinates because I don't know where the paragraph

>> break is going to be rendered.

>>

>> I'm sure there is a way - could anyone tell ?

>>   

> 

> What I did was write myself a flowable that I could add to the story 

> just like another paragraph, whose sole function was to draw a 

> horizontal line out to the column boundaries.  I haven't used this in 

> about 5 years, but maybe you can adapt it:

> 




> class HorizontalRule(Flowable):

>    def __init__(self, width=3, strokecolor=black):

....... 1)

>        p.close()

>        canvas.drawPath( p )

> 


modern reportlab.platypus.flowables has an HRFlowable that allows this 
sort of functionality it looks like this

class HRFlowable(Flowable):
	'''Like the hr tag'''
	def __init__(self,
			width="80%",
			thickness=1,
			lineCap='round',
			color=lightgrey,
			spaceBefore=1, spaceAfter=1,
			hAlign='CENTER', vAlign='BOTTOM',
			dash=None):

-- 
Robin Becker