[reportlab-users] Backward textflow through minipages?

[Robin Becker]

Dinu Gherman wrote:

> Hi,

> 

> I have a project using sets of "minipages" on every document page.

> Both, the document pages and the minipages themselves are double-

> sided. The minipage content is different for each minipage. Think

> of a novel printed on minipages which will be printed, cut and

> bound to a booklet in smaller format.

> 

> Now, Platypus provides the NextFrame flowable for frame switching,

> but I cannot see an obvious way to jump *backward* to a frame (mini-

> page) on a previous (physical) page. Is that so or am I missing

> something?

> 

> Surely there are tools for "minipaging" a PDF document, but I have

> seen none which would allow the necessary degree of layout flexi-

> bility.

> 

> Thanks,

> 

> Dinu

.......
I'm not sure I follow here Dinu, are you asking to have multiple frames 
simultaneously being written or do you want to go backwards in the story and 
annotate/decorate/add to frames which (at least conceptually) have already been 
written?
-- 
Robin Becker