[reportlab-users] Images in PDFs in Google Appengine

[john at thinkwave.com]

Hello

I am using Google Appengine, and am successfully generating text-based PDF documents using Platypus and ReportLab.  Now, I'd like to include images in the reports, and am getting stuck.  

First:  Google does not support PIL.  It does provide it's own module to save an image to a blobproperty as a jpeg file.  From what I understand, if I use a jpeg file from the datastore, it should render, even if PIL is not installed?

But I'm having problems getting this to work.  If I assign the model.blob value to a variable, and place the variable
in the table ([item]) - I get UnicodeDecodeError exceptions.  If I try
to retrieve the image from my handler (which outputs the image as a mimetype image/jpg) - I get Imaging Library not
available errors. 

Can someone provide me with some pointers how I'd go about successfully taking a jpeg stored in a blobproperty, and getting it included into a platypus table, without having the application start loading PIL modules?  Thanks -

johnP
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