[reportlab-users] Merging parts of pdf files

[David Brown]

I've been using ReportLab to generate reports from a wxPython 
application.  It's an extremely useful library, and gives much better 
quality pdfs than using postscript printouts and a postscript to pdf 
converter (and it's much easier and faster than other sophisticated pdf 
generators, like pdfLaTeX).

One thing I am missing, however, is the ability to import an existing 
pdf page (or part of a page) as a Flowable in the same way that other 
images can be added to a page.  I am not well versed in the details of 
the pdf format, but I believe it can handle embedded pdf files in the 
same way as embedded jpeg images.  Certainly pdfLaTeX can handle 
imported pdf files in this way.

Is such a Flowable possible to implement for future versions of ReportLab?

At the moment, I'm using pyPdf to merge my generated pdf file with the 
imported pdf file, which works here but is not a very elegant solution.

mvh.,

David Brown
Norway.