[reportlab-users] FW: linkAnnotate and linkRect, relative to transforms

[Tim Roberts]

Ian Sparks wrote:

> Tim Roberts Wrote:

>   

>>  This does *not* move the origin 5 inches up.  It moves the origin 2.5

>>  inches up, because everything is already scaled down by 50%.

>>     

>

> Good point. I have a pretty good track record of being an idiot[1] but

> look at the test PDF (attached, generated from trunk). What do you see?

> To my eye that text is 5 inches up the page, not 2.5 and when I look at

> the generated raw PDF commands it doesn't smell right.

>

> Please take another look and let me know your thoughts.

>   


canvas.showPage resets the transform to [1 0 0 1 0 0] (or [1 0 0 -1 0 x]
if top-down is set).  You start over with each page.

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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.