[reportlab-users] paragraphs over several pages

[Andy Robinson]

2009/4/17 johnf <jfabiani at yolo.com>:

> I'm hoping someone can explain the general way to handle printing a large body

> of text (a notes field from a database) across several pages.  I am creating

> an invoice that of course contains headers, footers, groupings and a detail

> section.  In the detail section I have to include a notes field that is

> unknow in size in advance.  In fact it can be quite large for the area

> assigned and would require several pages to print correctly.  This meaning I

> need to reprint headers, footers, and continue the notes on several pages.

> I'm sure this has situation has happened to others and I'm interested in how

> it was handled.


Have you just been using pdfgen so far, or have you tried platypus
yet?   If not, you should - it's the subpackage dealing with flowing
text over multiple pages, and any headers and footers defined in the
page templates will repeat themselves.

- Andy