[reportlab-users] background image

[Harald Armin Massa]

Arkadi,

read the chapters about

canvas.beginForm("formname")
canvas.endForm("formname")
and
canvas.doForm("formname")

"Forms" can be used to store elements common to all pages within the pdf.

best wishes,

Harald

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Arkadi Colson <arkadi at smartbit.be> wrote:

> Hi all,

>

>

>  I was wondering if it's possible to use a full page image as background in

> a multi page pdf without ending up with a very big file size? So the

> background image may not be loaded on every page again but only once. (the

> image is the same for every page)

>  Right now I'm using the canvas method drawInlineImage. If the image is for

> example 100k and the pdf has 100 pages, I will end up with a file of minimum

> 10M which is to big.

>

>  Anyone who has a solution for this?

>

>  Thanks a lot.

>

>  Best regards,

>    Arkadi

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