[reportlab-users] PythonPoint master slides?

Dinu Gherman reportlab-users@reportlab.com
Thu, 6 Feb 2003 09:13:59 +0100


Andy Robinson:

>> Graphics, yes, but I was mentioning the position of each frame
>> on a slide, which I assume is not a graphic element, is it?
>
> I think you are right.  This could be improved.
> I cannot easily visualize how the XML would be laid
> out, though...why don't you try to come up with
> some snippets of xml to show how it could work?

I haven't reached that phase yet - the first thing is to find out
if somebody else has already solved it! ;-) I think XML provides
some rather advanced (and rarely used) mechanisms for defining and
reusing unique IDs inside a document, so maybe this is a way to
go...?

Dinu

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