[reportlab-users] newbie question about PDF-generation from template

[Jerome Alet]

Hi,

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 02:17:53PM +0200, Andreas Rudolph wrote:

> 

> at first I'd like to thank the developers for their great work. 

> ReportLab looks really nice, but I'm having some problems with the 

> provided documentation / examples.

> 

> The following things I try to realize with ReportLab:

> 

> - I already have an existing PDF-file, that should be used as template.

> - I want to open this PDF-template and write some additional content on it.

> - Finally the modifiied document should be saved under a new filename, 

> or maybe send directly as HTTP-response.

> 

> My questions about this:

> 

> - Can this be realized with ReportLab?

> - If yes, can you give me a hint how to do this?

> 

> I tried a bit with 'BaseDocTemplate' and 'SimpleDocTemplate', but 

> without success so far.


Modifying an existing PDF document is not possible with ReportLab 
out of the box. You need their commercial offering to do this. 

bye

Jerome Alet