[reportlab-users] feature check - compute total pages needed

[Robin Becker]

On 06/04/2010 14:09, Steve Romanow wrote:

> Good Morning Guys!

>

> I am recommending RL for a (first) project at my company and could

> someone pls help me check one feature.

>

> I need to print on each page of my documents 1 of 8, 2 of 8, etc. When

> using flowables, does it do 2 passes? Does page one know the total

> number of pages?

>

> Does this presume the use of one lib over another? i.e. is it platypus

> or preppy or the base RL python module that provides this feature?

>

> TIA,

>

> Steve Romanow

.......

In pdf it is possible to define a small form which will be used to hold the 
total page count. The form can be used before its contents are defined so you 
can define the page count right at the end. That has to be done using the 
canvas, but isn't really hard.

On the other hand multibuild may allow you to do stuff really easily see eg

https://www.reportlab.com/snippets/13/
-- 
Robin Becker