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Literal blocks do not shink with newer versions of ReportLab

See original GitHub issue

Even when running rst2pdf with --fit-literal-mode=shrink literal blocks to not shrink when they spill over the page edge.

It looks like in ReportLab the function _listWrapOn behaves differently now. There is a configuration parameter for reportlab listWrapOnFakeWidth which needs to be set to False for _listWrapOn to return the correct width.

Current workaround, is to create reportlab_settings.py in the same directory (or on your Python path) with the following:

listWrapOnFakeWidth = False

rst2pdf --version 0.93.dev-r0

reportlab.version ‘3.2.0’

literal-block.txt literal-block.pdf

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Created 8 years ago
Comments:9 (2 by maintainers)

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stoggicommented, Nov 30, 2015

We may be able to simply set fakeWidth=False in flowables.py:729:

self.width, self.height = _listWrapOn(self.content, maxWidth, None, fakeWidth=False)

Although, I am unsure what fakeWidth is for, and what impact this would have.

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ralsinacommented, Nov 7, 2018

Fix in https://github.com/rst2pdf/rst2pdf/pull/703

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