[reportlab-users] multiple frames on one page

[Arkadi Colson]

Robin Becker wrote:

> Arkadi Colson wrote:

>> Hi,

>>

>> Thanks for the quick response. Attached you can see the complete file 

>> but it will still not work because a lot of external classes are not 

>> there. But maybe you can find the reason this way.

>> I did not start from a working example, I only needed one frame until 

>> now.

>>

>> Robin Becker wrote:

>>> Arkadi Colson wrote:

> .......

> Not exactly sure what your' intending, but the two frame stuff appears 

> to be just the cover page(s) is that correct? So far as I can tell 

> you're doing

>

That's correct, only on the first page, there should be 2 frames.

>

>>         story.append( NextPageTemplate('cover') )

>>

>>         self.nameTxt          = dom.xpath('string(/pdf/cover/nameTxt)')

>>         self.name             = dom.xpath('string(/pdf/cover/name)')

>>         self.vakTxt           = dom.xpath('string(/pdf/cover/vakTxt)')

>>         self.vak              = dom.xpath('string(/pdf/cover/vak)')

>>         self.klasTxt          = dom.xpath('string(/pdf/cover/klasTxt)')

>>         self.klas             = dom.xpath('string(/pdf/cover/klas)')

>>         self.syTitle          = dom.xpath('string(/pdf/cover/syCover)')

>>         self.syTxt            = dom.xpath('string(/pdf/cover/syTxt)')

>>         self.sy               = dom.xpath('string(/pdf/cover/sy)')

>>         self.logo             = dom.xpath('string(/pdf/cover/logo)')

>>         self.logoWidth        = 

>> int(dom.xpath('string(/pdf/cover/logoWidth)'))

>>         self.logoHeight       = 

>> int(dom.xpath('string(/pdf/cover/logoHeight)'))

>>         self.logoValid        = 

>> int(dom.xpath('string(/pdf/cover/logoValid)'))

>>         self.ypTxt            = dom.xpath('string(/pdf/cover/ypTxt)')

>>         self.ypTitle          = dom.xpath('string(/pdf/cover/ypTitle)')

>>         self.metadataTitle    = 

>> dom.xpath('string(/pdf/addons/metadataTitle)')

>>

>>

>>         doc.setTitle(self.ypTxt+" "+self.ypTitle)

>>

>>         ### Cover BEGIN

>>         story.append( self.drawCoverInfo() )

>>         ### Cover END

>>

>>         ### MetaData BEGIN

>>         story.append( NextPageTemplate('metadata') )

>>         story.append( PageBreak() )

> The NextPageTemplate is intended to prime the interpreter so that the 

> next time you change pages you get the referred to template. I suspect 

> that since cover is already the first page template you don't need the 

> NextPageTemplate append at the beginning. Apart from that it looks 

> right although if the content of drawCoverInfo were small you might 

> not see any usage of a second template.

>

Correct, so I removed the first NextPageTemplate but no changes.

OK, I added some spacers to the end of the first template and now it 
seems to work. I didn't knew this and it is very logic of course.

Thanks a lot for the helping me out of this!!!

>

> Why don't you try tuning on all your showFrames and see where the 

> frames actually are.