Hello -

Lasso 8.5

I'm having a strange issue with the PDF generation tags and am wondering if there is something fundamental I'm missing.

I'm generating a PDF with size "Letter" with a series of tables of varying length depending on the content, one after another.

Seemingly, every time it gets to page 2, it prints about 20% of the page and then starts a new page leaving a giant amount of white space. Since the content varies in length, I can't start a new page manually in the code. Its seems that the amount printed on Page 2 is the same amount in the header area on page 1 before I start stacking tables.

This is a sample table and all are essentially the same (forgive the colon syntax):

-------

[var:'MyTable'=(PDF_Table:
-Cols=2,
-Rows=4,
-Spacing=0,
-Padding=2,
-Width=100,
-BorderWidth=0.25,
-ColWidth=(Array:'10.0','90.0')
)]

[var:'text'=(PDF_Text:'(3b) Questions have high cognitive challenge and are forulated by both teacher and students with high levels of student participation.', -Type='Paragraph', -Font=$Helv9Bold, -Leading=10)]
[$MyTable->(Add:$text, -Col=0, -Row=0, -Colspan=2, -Rowspan=1)]
[$MyTable->(Add:$3b1,-col=0, -row=1, -VerticalAlignment='Center', -HorizontalAlignment='Center', -Font=$Helv12Bold)]
[var:'text'=(PDF_Text:$3b1_evidence, -Type='Paragraph', -Font=$Helv8, -Leading=8)]
[$MyTable->(Add:$text,-col=1, -row=1)]


[var:'text'=(PDF_Text:'(3b) The teacher asks students to justify their reasoning, and students are able to do so.', -Type='Paragraph', -Font=$Helv9Bold, -Leading=10)]
[$MyTable->(Add:$text, -Col=0, -Row=2, -Colspan=2, -Rowspan=1)]
[$MyTable->(Add:$3b2,-col=0, -row=3, -VerticalAlignment='Center', -HorizontalAlignment='Center', -Font=$Helv12Bold)]
[var:'text'=(PDF_Text:$3b2_evidence, -Type='Paragraph', -Font=$Helv8, -Leading=8)]
[$MyTable->(Add:$text,-col=1, -row=3)]

[$MyFile->(Add:$MyTable)]


The content above this series of tables is an Add:Text then an Add:Table and then another Add:Text. Then the stacked tables start - about 9 of them.

Am I correct in thinking the PDF should generate sequentially or is there some Lasso magic making the page breaks?





Patrick Larkin
Information Systems
Bethlehem Area School District
https://www.beth.k12.pa.us





#############################################################
This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to
the mailing list Lasso
Lasso@lists.lassosoft.com
To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <Lasso-unsubscribe@lists.lassosoft.com>
Send administrative queries to <Lasso-request@lists.lassosoft.com>