Why am I receiving following layout error while generating a PDF locally?

[dlovett]

2014-10-06 13:26:37,617 Eastern Daylight Time ERROR pdfgen_endpoint:237 - Exception raised while trying to render "M 24 Hour Report Log" to PDF. Flowable <Table@0x03056948 8 rows x 11 cols(tallest row 574)>...(424.0 x 1768), tallest cell 574.0 points,  too large on page 2 in frame 'normal'(456.0 x 636.0*) of template 'Later' Traceback (most recent call last):   File "D:\Splunk\etc\system\bin\pdfgen_endpoint.py", line 233, in _render
    self._pdfRenderer.save()   File "D:\Splunk\Python-2.7\Lib\site-packages\splunk\pdf\pdfrenderer.py", line 419, in save
    doc.build(self._story, onFirstPage=_footer, onLaterPages=_footer)   File "D:\Splunk\Python-2.7\Lib\site-packages\reportlab\platypus\doctemplate.py", line 1129, in build
    BaseDocTemplate.build(self,flowables, canvasmaker=canvasmaker)   File "D:\Splunk\Python-2.7\Lib\site-packages\reportlab\platypus\doctemplate.py", line 892, in build
    self.handle_flowable(flowables)   File "D:\Splunk\Python-2.7\Lib\site-packages\reportlab\platypus\doctemplate.py", line 805, in handle_flowable
    raise LayoutError(ident) LayoutError: Flowable <Table@0x03056948 8 rows x 11 cols(tallest row 574)>...(424.0 x 1768), tallest cell 574.0 points,  too large on page 2 in frame 'normal'(456.0 x 636.0*) of template 'Later'

[dlovett · Accepted solution]

fixed it. had to go to settings and change the default settings for pdf. After setting the default size to "Legal" and format to "landscape" the error went away