[reportlab-users] multiple frames on one page

[Robin Becker]

Arkadi Colson wrote:

> Hi all,

> 

> I'm having a problem with frames and pagetemplates. As you can see in 

> the code below I would like to have 2 frames on the first page but only 

> one frame(the first one:Fcover) is showing. Because the complete file is 

> quite big I only included parts of the code. I hope this is ok for 

> trying to locate the problem.

> 

.......
Not sure what's wrong if anything with your code. It's too comlex/incomplete to 
get any idea of where things are going wrong.

Did you start from a working example?

This code


##########################################################
class ssDocTemplate(BaseDocTemplate):
     _invalidInitArgs = ('pageTemplates',)

     def __init__(self, filename, **kw):
         frame1    = 
Frame(85*mm,30*mm,125*mm,55*mm,leftPadding=0*mm,rightPadding=0*mm,topPadding=0*mm,bottomPadding=0*mm,id='Fcover',showBoundary=1)
         frame2    = 
Frame(10*mm,20*mm,100*mm,50*mm,leftPadding=0*mm,rightPadding=0*mm,topPadding=0*mm,bottomPadding=0*mm,id='Fcover2',showBoundary=1) 

         self.allowSplitting = 0
         self.showBoundary = 1
         apply(BaseDocTemplate.__init__, (self, filename), kw)
         template = PageTemplate('normal', [frame1, frame2], ssOnPage)
         self.addPageTemplates(template)

normalStyle = ParagraphStyle(name = 'normal')

story=[].append
BLAHS=('STARTUP','COMPUTERS','BLAH','BUZZWORD','STARTREK','PRINTING','PYTHON')
for x in xrange(20):
     story(Paragraph(randomText('chomsky'),normalStyle))
     story(Paragraph(randomText(BLAHS[x%len(BLAHS)]),normalStyle))
story=story.__self__

doc = ssDocTemplate('test_ssDocTemplate.pdf')
doc.multiBuild(story)
##########################################################

appears to work and you can see that the frames are actually overlapping.
-- 
Robin Becker