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

[Ian Sparks]

Tim Roberts wrote :

>  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.

>  


Aha. The light dawns. Thanks Tim.



>  -----Original Message-----

>  From: reportlab-users-bounces at reportlab.com [mailto:reportlab-users-

>  bounces at reportlab.com] On Behalf Of Tim Roberts

>  Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 5:24 PM

>  To: Support list for users of Reportlab software

>  Subject: Re: [reportlab-users] FW: linkAnnotate and linkRect,

relative to

>  transforms

>  

>  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.

>  

>  --

>  Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com

>  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

>  

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