[reportlab-users] Scaling and Translation

[Ashley Lloyd]

I know this is a very simple answer, but surely it would work ...

Couldn't you just set it up, setting a variable called, say, sizing (or 
xsizing and ysizing if necessary), so having:
sizing=0.5
canv.scale(sizing,sizing)       #Make all drawing operations half-size
canv.rect(0,9 * inch * 1/sizing,inch,inch) #Draw an inch-square box 9-inches 
up the page.

Ok, initially that would mean changing every drawing operation, but when 
making subsequent adjustments, you'd just have to assign sizing as 
necessary.

HTH

Ashley

>From: "Ian Sparks" <Ian.Sparks at etrials.com>
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>To: "Reportlab-Users (E-mail)" <reportlab-users at reportlab.com>
>Subject: [reportlab-users] Scaling and Translation
>Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 16:26:52 -0400
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>
>
>I have a set drawing operations that render a complex shape. Ordinarily the 
>shape wouldn't fit on the canvas page so I'm going to scale the shape.
>
>So :
>
>from reportlab.lib.units import inch
>from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
>
>canv = canvas.Canvas("D:/PDFGen2/t.pdf")
>canv.scale(0.5,0.5)       #Make all drawing operations half-size
>canv.rect(0,9 * inch,inch,inch) #Draw an inch-square box 9-inches up the 
>page.
>canv.save()
>
>BUT! I want to maintain the position of the box at 9 inches from the bottom 
>of the page even though I want it to draw half-size. The above code will 
>draw it 4.5 inches from the top of the page.
>
>I can adjust to this :
>
>canv.rect(0,9 * inch * 2,inch,inch) #Draw an inch-square box (account for 
>scaling)
>
>but that means touching every drawing operation.
>
>So My question : Is there a better, more global way to achieve this?
>
>
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