[reportlab-users] Re: Howto work with 2 frames with different content

[Amit]

I'm glad it helped.

Amit

On 6/29/05, Paul Boots <rl at bootsch.demon.nl> wrote:
> Thank so much Amit,
> 
> I saw your question just after my post ;-) , but this answer is perfect!
> 
> 
> At 10:01 -0700 29/6/2005, Amit wrote:
> >Hi there,
> >
> >I just had similar problems and it took me sometime to figure out the
> >entire thing. The documentation that comes with reportlab is not very
> >comprehensive, although it does provide you with a lot of examples.
> >Another tip of learning this will be to look at
> >http://developer.reportlab.com/examples.html , you can easily write
> >out python code from the RML examples. But anyways as for your I
> >problem I have the solution for you. First of all, I would like you to
> >understand that you will be using PLATYPUS instead of pdfgen.
> >
> >def createPlatypusPage(pieChart1, pieChart2, table1):
> >       # PDF Properties
> >       Title = "ECS Report #1"
> >       Author = "ECS Information Systems"
> >       PageInfo = "Sample Report"
> >
> >       # define frames - for frames in page
> >       frameHeader = Frame(x1=0*inch, y1=7.5*inch, width=11*inch, height=1*inch)
> >       frameChart1 = Frame(x1=0*inch, y1=2.5*inch, width=5.5*inch, height=5*inch)
> >       frameChart2 = Frame(x1=5.5*inch, y1=2.5*inch, width=5.5*inch, height=5*inch)
> >       frameTable1 = Frame(x1=0*inch, y1=0*inch, width=5.5*inch, height=2.5*inch)
> >       frameTable2 = Frame(x1=5.5*inch, y1=0*inch, width=5.5*inch, height=2.5*inch)
> >
> >       # define pageTemplates - for page in document
> >       mainPage = PageTemplate(frames=[frameHeader, frameChart1, frameChart2,
> >                                                                   frameTable1, frameTable2])
> >
> >       # define BasicDocTemplate - for document
> >       doc = BaseDocTemplate('report_1.pdf', pagesize=landscape(letter),
> >                                                  pageTemplates=mainPage, leftMargin=72,
> >                                                  title=Title, author=Author, showBoundary=0)
> >
> >       # styles
> >       styles = getSampleStyleSheet()
> >       styleH = styles['Heading1']
> >
> >       # create a story
> >       story = []
> >       heading = Paragraph("This is a Heading for the Report", styleH)
> >       heading.hAlign = 'CENTER'
> >       pieChart1.hAlign = 'CENTER'
> >       pieChart2.hAlign = 'CENTER'
> >
> >       story.append(heading)
> >       story.append(FrameBreak())              # move to next frame
> >       story.append(pieChart1)                 # note that frame order is based upon order
> >used in PageTemplate
> >       story.append(FrameBreak())              # move to next frame
> >       story.append(pieChart2)
> >       story.append(FrameBreak())              # move to next frame
> >       story.append(table1)
> >
> >       doc.build(story)
> >
> >This is quite straightforward and the comments, I hope, will be quite
> >helpful. Anyways if you have any questions please post again.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Amit
> >
> >On 6/29/05, rl at bootsch.demon.nl <rl at bootsch.demon.nl> wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> After looking at the demo/examples, the docs and code I'm still missing something.
> >>
> >> I want pages with two frames, on the left a topic list, the right frame for the content.
> >> I would like to use BaseDocTemplate as base for my class but I can figure out how
> >> to do this.
> >>
> >> Another option seems to be to use the 'Frame.addFromList' method, but that will
> >> give me other problems.
> >>
> >> Any help would be much appreciated
> >> --
> >> Vriendelijke groet,
> >> Paul
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> Paul
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