[reportlab-users] 2up duplex printing?

Karl Putland reportlab-users@reportlab.com
Fri, 22 Aug 2003 16:03:50 -0600


The other option is to use pdf2ps and some form of psutils such as
psbook then potentially ps2pdf if you really need a pdf in the end.

--Karl

On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 15:41, Christoph Devenoges wrote:
> ++ Andy Robinson wrote on Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 09:54:27PM +0100 :
> > We do not have any general "imposition" routines,
> > so I guess you would have to make one "big page"
> > with crop marks and explicit placement of lots of 
> > frames in the correct order.
> 
> ah. imposition is the magic google word, thx
> 
> 
> how can i find the rendered hight of a flowable?
> 
> also
>  userguide.pdf page 78:
> 
> 8.5 PageBreak()
> ...but would only be a frame break for multiple frames...
> 
> how can i use CondPageBreak if i dont know anything about height?
> FrameBreak?
> 
> 
> back to the point:
> i was thinking of taking the total lengths of my flowables, the
> lengths of my frames, splitting the list at page boundrys and
> reordering the list fragments accordingly.
> 
> eg. 
> >>>duplex([1, 2, 3, 4])
> [4, 1, 2, 3]
> >>> duplex([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8])
> [8, 1, 2, 7, 6, 3, 4, 5]
> 
> could it be this simple?
> 
> 
> 
> regards
> 
> chris
> 
> 
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