[reportlab-users] Embedding Platypus Story in Canvas

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Tim Roberts wrote:


> By default, the "build" method calls Canvas.save() to generate the PDF,

> but you can override that by setting doc._doSave = 0.  Then you can do

> doc.canv.showPage() and start drawing more stuff.  You could even derive

> your own class from SimpleDocTemplate, and override afterInit or

> beforeDocument to set that.


Tim,

   Thanks.


> That should work.  I usually store the page size in a global somewhere,

> and then do

>    pg.drawCentredString( PageSize[0] / 2, 36, pgnum )

> so I can switch to landscape, for example, without great pain.


   Good idea.

   Also, I inadvertently deleted your other message. But, I see in
test_table_layout.py that I can explicitly place a paragraph in one cell.

Rich

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