[reportlab-users] Producing pages out of order - possible?

[Paul Sleigh]

G'day.  I've got a project I wrote in PHP using an open source PDF 
generation library, but it's slow and a huge memory hog, and I'm hoping 
to move it over to something a little less ugly.  One feature I need is 
the ability to produce pages out of order: that is, generate the body of 
a document as pages N+1 to N+M, then an N-page table of contents at the 
beginning, with the page numbers in the form "Page 1 of X" filled in as 
the last step.  The table of contents has to be at the start if at all 
possible because that's what the user had with his original 
Word-macro-chewing-gum-and-string version, and he's resistant to change, 
but obviously it has to have that generated after the body of the 
document because otherwise there's no way to know which item goes on 
which page.

So, my question: can I do this using the ReportLab tool?  If so, I think 
you've found a lifelong friend; if not, I fear I may have to come up 
with some other solution, and I'm running out of ideas.

What can you tell me?


: Paul :