[reportlab-users] Embedding Platypus Story in Canvas

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Tim Roberts wrote:


> If you define _doSave to something false (None or 0 or False or '' etc.),

> it should skip the save(). In that case, you should be able to fetch the

> canvas out of the docTemplate, call showPage(), and continue on with your

> own drawing.

>

> Maybe that's the issue.  Are you fetching the canvas from the doc

> template? It creates its own canvas. You can't use your own.


   This looks like the problem source. I define 'doc' as SimpleDocTemplate()
which does not allow me to pass the defined canvas. Not before instantiating
PageTemplate(), I need to look for an example to follow.

Rich

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