[reportlab-users] [Bug report] Table splits fail due to postponed-content height constraint

[Yoshua Wakeham]

Thanks Robin! I look forward to hearing from you.

Also for the record, the Google mirror doesn't actually seem to be
mirroring the mailing list any more – looking over the mailing list archive
for the past few months, none of those threads are in the Google group.

Yosh

On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 4:32 AM Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> wrote:

> Hi Yoshua (and Christian),
>
> 1) thanks for re-raising this bug. I suspect we failed to see/use the
> google list report. Google wants to control everything bah :(
>
> 2) I see a layout failure when running the example without the patch.
>
> 3) The patch fixes this particular exception.
>
> 4) I will need to run a full set of graphical comparisons to see if the
> fix materially alters anything else. If OK it will go into the next release
> along with the test and credits.
>
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2025 at 21:45, Yoshua Wakeham via reportlab-users <
> reportlab-users at lists2.reportlab.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I'd like to draw attention to a bug in within-row table splits.
>>
>> Note: this one was first reported in 2024 by Christian Zwicknagl in the
>> Google mirror of this mailing list (link
>> <https://groups.google.com/g/reportlab-users/c/NhklESoh3mg/m/pO8Ve7VlCgAJ>).
>> It seems that the report didn't get noticed, because it was only ever
>> posted to the mirror. I have adapted his test code and patch, but I don't
>> have his contact details so I haven't been able to communicate with him to
>> see if he would still be interested in a fix. (Christian, if you're out
>> there, thank you for reporting this in 2024!)
>> ...........
>> Best regards,
>> Yosh
>>
>> --
>>
>> *Yoshua Wakeham*...........
>>
> --
> Robin Becker
>
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