[reportlab-users] How to properly get alignments of flowables right...

[Robin Becker]

Brower Jason wrote:

> I am trying to get my first flowable working in my pdf.

> 

> It works, but I want to have it start at a certain upper left position.

> 5*cm x 5*cm

> 

> Is there a way to designate that?  It seems to always want to draw from

> the lower left.  I have no problem with that, it's just that when I

> create the text in the box the starting point moves UP and I can't

> figure out how to logically place this object.

> 

> Best Regards,

> 

> Jason Brower



Although Drawings are flowables they were originally intended as stand alone 
objects ie create a single bitmap, pdf, eps or svg image etc etc. If you intend 
to use the flowable interface then either you add the flowable to a platypus 
story or you need to use the drawOn method. So if D is your drawing you should 
do something like

	D.drawOn(canv,x,y)

where canv is your pdf canvas and x and y are the coordinates with x measured 
from left edge of the user space and y from the bottom.
-- 
Robin Becker