[reportlab-users] Insert black background in doc header

[Robin Becker]

Jim Steil wrote:

> Hi:

> 

> I'm stumped on what is probably a very easy thing to do.   I have a 

> document I have to create that has a black background on the header of 

> the document.  It is approximately 1" high, starting at 1.5 inches from 

> the left border and running to about 1 inch from the right border.  The 

> top is about an inch from the top border of the page.  I have a bunch of 

> text to print in front of the black background, but can't seem to figure 

> out how to create the background.  I see how I can do it with tables, 

> paragraphs and graphics, but they all require a flowable (at least I 

> think they do) to place them on.  Can someone help me out of my brain 

> freeze by educating me on how I can get this generated?  I would like to 

> build a graphic and place it there, but don't know how to place it 

> there.  All of the samples I've seen in the doc show how you can take a 

> graphic and renderPDF.drawToFile, but I want to specifically position it 

> in my document.

> 

>    -Jim

.......
what framework are you using? If it's platypus then you can do drawing 
operations in the template onPage callback.

That might be something like

canv.saveState()
canv.setFillColorRGB(0,0,0)
canv.c.rect(inch,8*inch,6*inch,1*inch, fill=1)
canv.restoreState()

-- 
Robin Becker