[reportlab-users] getKeepWithNext attribute error

[Andy Robinson]

Riaan Bekker wrote:

> Ok, think I found the problem here. I populate the self._flowables with 

> a list of FRAMES, and as far as I can see FRAMES are not flowables, they 

> are containers. So when I populated the list with PARAGRAPHS, then it 

> created the PDF document, although it was empty.

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> I am not sure how FRAMES and PARAGRAPHS fit together. How do I tell the 

> document that I have a BASEDOCTEMPLATE with 4 frames (3 columns at top, 

> 1 body frame) and then how to I tell the PARAGRAPHS that it belongs to a 

> certain FRAME?

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> At the moment I did the following:

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>    1. Setup a class and derive from BaseDocTemplate.

>    2. Setup a pageTemplate.

>    3. Setup Frames

>    4. Add frames to the pageTemplate

>    5. Add the pageTemplate to the list of page templates

>    6. create a flowable list of paragraphs

>    7. use the build method and send the flowable (full of paragraphs)

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> The PDF is then still empty. How do I tell the paragraphs to go into 

> certain frames?


That looks about right.  Can you post us a running program here?

Also have you looked at any of the test scripts such as
    reportlab/test/test_platypus_*.py

test_platypus_general.py is too complicated but the others all
make a template, make a story and run it, and they produce
a PDF file with the same name as the test when run?


(We do need a complete, runnable tutorial-style example in the docs,
but the team has absolutely no time to create one in the next 2 weeks.
We'll try to get one in for the next release...)

- Andy