[reportlab-users] [BUG] Table cell too big

[Dirk Holtwick]

Hi,

there is an old issue with Reportlab tables that you get an error if a 
table cell is larger than the page itself, because a table cell will not 
be splitted inside. The traceback looks somewhat like this

-----------------8<---------------[cut here]
...
   File 
"F:\work\xhtml2pdf-30\env-reportlab21-python24\lib\site-packages\reportlab\platypus\doctemplate.py", 
line 740, in build
     self.handle_flowable(flowables)
   File 
"F:\work\xhtml2pdf-30\env-reportlab21-python24\lib\site-packages\reportlab\platypus\doctemplate.py", 
line 671, in handle_flowable
     raise LayoutError(ident)
LayoutError: Flowable <PmlTable at 21380632 19 rows x 3 cols> with 
cell(0,0) containing
u'<PmlParagraph at 0x1370440>\xa0Problem identified' too large on page 4
-----------------8<---------------[cut here]


The only work around I found is to wrap the content of the table call 
with KeepInFrame() so that e.g. the content shrinks to fit. This is not 
a very good solution.

Are there other ways to work around this problem? Is splitting of table 
cells planned?

Cheers
Dirk