[reportlab-users] using renderPM with platypus

[Andy Robinson]

will at phototropia.org wrote:
> Friends:
>      Can you use renderPM with platypus objects(particularly tables and
> paragraphs.)

No, generally not.

The graphics submodule was originally just designed to do just charts 
and has a different metaphor.

Internally we have written some pretty complex widgets to render certain 
fiddly tables, so that customers can then use them in the web and in 
Quark documents.  With hindsight we came to wish that all the graphics 
renderers were just "a different canvas class" with the same graphics 
primitives, which would also let you do a whole PDF page as a bitmap - 
for previewing in a GUI.  But that's a "ReportLab 3.0" thing and I won't 
promise any dates on that ;-)

- Andy