[reportlab-users] Consuming two frames with a Paragraph

Federico Fanton federico at panizzolo.it
Tue Sep 21 03:41:14 EDT 2010


Andy Robinson wrote:

> OK, but as the old treasure maps used to say, "Here be dragons...."!


Sounds fun :D



> You pass in an expression to DocIf which may refer to

> 'currentFrame','currentPageTemplate','availableWidth','availableHeight'

> and 'page'. So after your paragraph, you can test if you are in a

> left- or right-side frame, and output FrameBreaks accordingly.


Works perfectly, thanks! :)
(For the record the expression I'm using is "doc.frame.id == 'bframe'")



> I hope this helps. If you can make up a useful example and contribute

> it back we would be happy to add a test or code snippet to have some

> more documentation on this feature...


I can try, certainly :) Is there an example I should follow/imitate, or
would a script that creates a PDF suffice?

Thanks again!


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