PFA Basic example pdf with nested tables using web2py-appreport plugin , Please let me know if this would work in your case.
https://github.com/lucasdavila/web2py-appreport I can test if you provide me the html of with the nested table you plan to have. The attached report was generated using PISA (xhtmltopdf) part of the plugin. On Sunday, 15 July 2012 01:36:33 UTC+5:30, thinkwell wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I'm experimenting with pyfpdf with HTML formatting, but it's not going so > well. Is a bit buggy. For example, this code generates a KeyError: 'width'. > > {from gluon.contrib.pyfpdf import FPDF, HTMLMixin > from gluon.html import * > > header = HEAD('html2pdf', _align='center') > > pets = TABLE(_border=1, _width="100%") > pets.append(TR(TH('Dogs'),TH("Cats"),TH('Snakes'))) > pets.append(TR('Collies','Tabby','Python')) > pets.append(TR('Akitas', 'Persian', 'Garter')) > > > class MyFPDF(FPDF, HTMLMixin): > pass > > html2 = pets.xml() > > print html2 > > pdf=MyFPDF() > #First page > pdf.add_page() > pdf.write_html(html2) > pdf.output('html2.pdf','F')} > > I > {/usr/lib/python2.7/HTMLParser.pyc in goahead(self, end) > 156 if startswith('<', i): > 157 if starttagopen.match(rawdata, i): # < + letter > --> 158 k = self.parse_starttag(i) > 159 elif startswith("</", i): > 160 k = self.parse_endtag(i) > > /usr/lib/python2.7/HTMLParser.pyc in parse_starttag(self, i) > 322 self.handle_startendtag(tag, attrs) > 323 else: > --> 324 self.handle_starttag(tag, attrs) > 325 if tag in self.CDATA_CONTENT_ELEMENTS: > 326 self.set_cdata_mode(tag) > > /home/dave/PythonTraining/web2py/gluon/contrib/pyfpdf/html.pyc in > handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs) > 245 self.td = dict([(k.lower(), v) for k,v in > attrs.items()]) > 246 self.th = True > --> 247 if self.td.has_key('width'): > 248 self.table_col_width.append(self.td['width']) > 249 if tag=='thead': > > KeyError: 'width' > } > > I tried changing line 247 to - > {if self.td.has_key('width'):} > > But the KeyError is still getting raised. :-( > > Is generating reports from HTML not recommended? In addition to this > KeyError, I've frequently gotten "list out of range" exceptions raised as > well, on what seem like the most vanilla of experiments. > > > --
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