[reportlab-users] Printing double on a page?

[Tim Roberts]

Michael Hipp wrote:

> Could someone give me a general idea of the best approach for this...

>

> We have US letter paper perforated along the middle. I want to put a nearly 

> identical print on the top half and the bottom half. The paper then gets torn 

> in half and the top is "Office Copy" and the bottom says "Customer Copy".

>

> I can see a lot of ways it can be done in ReportLab, but thought someone might 

> know the "best" way.

>   


The way I do this is to put the drawing code in a function, and pass in
the starting Y offset.

class MyDrawer:
    ...
    def drawOneHalf( self, x, y ):
        c = self.canvas
        c.drawString( x, y-4*inch, 'This is my title' )
        ...

    def drawWholeThing( self ):
        self.drawOneHalf( inch/2, inch/2 )
        self.drawOneHalf( inch/2, 11*inch/2 )

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