[reportlab-users] NextPageTemplate question

[Chad Nantais]

Thank you very much, Andy.  By putting NextPageTemplate at the top of 
my page, I got each unique page template render in the proper place.

Is there a way to count all the pages that have been created for a 
document and then create a variable like totalPages so that I can 
append something like "Page 1 of 8" automatically to each page?

Chad

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Chad Nantais

Web Development Consultant
Rednaxel Interactive

cnantais@rednaxel.com
http://cnantais.rednaxel.com

On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 06:31 AM, Andy Robinson wrote:

>> Why would do my page templates lag behind after the itinerary page?  
>> Or,
>> rather, why would pg 2 not take the NextPageTemplate directive and 
>> apply
>> the statement template?
>
> My guess is that insertItinerary is either filling the page, or
> is inserting a page break at the end.  So, the engine has
> already flipped over to page 2, still thinking the template
> to use is the Itinerary.
>
> NextPageTemplate literally means "use this the next
> time you see a page break".  You need to set it before
> changing pages.  So, if I am doing a letter with a
> 'covertemplate' and 'bodyTemplate', I usually puy
> my NextPageTemplate action pretty near the top
> of page 1.
>
> It has to be this way as the templates can draw stuff
> before any content is laid down, as well as after.  We did
> discuss, but never implemented, something to "peek ahead"
> so that if the first thing on a page was a NextPageTemplate
> it would still work.
>
> Hope ths helps,
>
> Andy Robinson
>
>>
>> 	def _makeStory(self):
>> 		""" make story composed of sections """
>> 		story = []
>> 		
>> 		story += [NextPageTemplate('Itinerary')]
>> 		story += self._insertItinerary()
>> 		story += [NextPageTemplate('Statement')]
>> 		story += self._insertStatement()
>> 		story += [NextPageTemplate('Segment')]
>> 		story += self._insertSegments()
>> 		return story
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Chad Nantais
>>
>> Web Development Consultant
>> Rednaxel Interactive
>>
>> cnantais@rednaxel.com
>> http://cnantais.rednaxel.com
>>
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