Try to use "em", see if you still get the same problem. 1em = 12pt
http://www.getallfix.com/2011/11/convert-empxpt-and-in-css/ On Monday, July 16, 2012 1:08:13 PM UTC-7, thinkwell wrote: > > Well, me again. I decided that I wanted to use points as measurements > instead of percentages, so now it barfs with an AttributeError. > > > from gluon.contrib.pyfpdf import FPDF, HTMLMixin > from gluon.html import * > > > pets = TABLE(_width="720pt") > pets.append(TR(TH('Dogs', _width="72pt", > _align="left"),TH("Cats",_width="72pt", > _align="left"),TH('Snakes',_width="72pt", _align="left"))) > pets.append(TR('Collies','Tabby','Python', _width="60pt")) > pets.append(TR('Akitas', 'Persian', 'Garter')) > pets.append(TR('German Shepherds', 'Alley Cats', 'Rattlesnakes')) > > > class MyFPDF(FPDF, HTMLMixin): > pass > > pdf=MyFPDF() > #First page > pdf.add_page() > pdf.write_html(pets.xml()) > pdf.output('html2.pdf','F') > > > This is clearly unremarkable HTML, but no, I get tracebacks like so: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "pyfpdf_test.py", line 73, in <module> > pdf.write_html(pets.xml()) > File "/home/dave/PythonTraining/web2py/gluon/contrib/pyfpdf/html.py", > line 388, in write_html > h2p.feed(text) > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/HTMLParser.py", line 114, in feed > self.goahead(0) > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/HTMLParser.py", line 158, in goahead > k = self.parse_starttag(i) > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/HTMLParser.py", line 324, in parse_starttag > self.handle_starttag(tag, attrs) > File "/home/dave/PythonTraining/web2py/gluon/contrib/pyfpdf/html.py", > line 241, in handle_starttag > self.pdf.set_x(self.table_offset) > AttributeError: HTML2FPDF instance has no attribute 'table_offset' > > I find this remarkable; this ordinary HTML; web2py encourages the use of > HTML helpers. web2py is easy to use, requires few dependencies, etc. etc. > But what a *fight* to create a simple table-based PDF! :-( And I'm still > experimenting in the layout stage. My final report will be much larger and > include nested tables *(that are already rendering fine in HTML, but not > in pyfpdf / html2pdf)*. > > Should I bite the bullet and install Reportlab? It'll be harder to get > started, more complicated to install & maintain (this will have to go on > multiple machines). The idea of a simple web2py project was very attractive > for these reasons. > > Are others out there creating PDFs from HTML with pyfpdf & html2pdf?? > --
