[reportlab-users] Appending image to Frame: no attribute 'getSpaceBefore'

[Tim Roberts]

Andrés Maneiro wrote:

> Hi people,

>

> im trying append an image to a frame, something like this:

>

> / ************ BEGIN CODE ***************** /

> from reportlab.pdfgen.canvas import Canvas

> from reportlab.lib.styles import getSampleStyleSheet

> from reportlab.lib.units import inch, cm

> from reportlab.platypus import Frame, Paragraph, Image

>

> story1.append(Paragraph("This is a Heading",styleH))

> mapa = Image('prueba1.jpg', width='256', height='192')

> mapa.wrap('256', '192')

> story1.append([mapa])


But you are not appending an Image.  You are appending a list containing 
an image.  That's why you get this:


> >>> Traceback (most recent call last):

>   File "/tmp/py9217Qyl", line 30, in <module>

>     f1.addFromList(story1,c)

>   File 

> "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/reportlab/platypus/frames.py", line 

> 202, in addFromList

>     if self.add(head,canv,trySplit=0):

>   File 

> "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/reportlab/platypus/frames.py", line 

> 126, in _add

>     s =flowable.getSpaceBefore()

> AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'getSpaceBefore'


It wanted to find a flowable, but it found a list instead.  Remove the 
extra brackets and you should be OK.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.