[reportlab-users] Custom Flowables - Can't get shapes.Drawing() to paint to the story/canvas

[Robin Becker]

On 30/11/2012 04:30, J. R. Carroll wrote:

> Well, the issue of making a flowable from Drawing never came to fruition,

> but I'll tackle it later.  Until then I wrestled the script into submission.

>

> It's freely available to anyone who might make use of it - the script.zip

> also has a sample PDF of what it generates.  If new colors are added or you

> want to create a new PDF you can just rerun the script itself; I'm sure

> others have created similar solutions, or this was an odd way of

> approaching the problem of the printer/pdf grid lines, but it was a really

> fun side-project that allowed me to learn some additional ReportLab

> features!

>

> But our company will be using this PDF/script to look/debug printers in the

> future.  Our intent is to look at the grayscale, color, and on-the-screen

> PDF to decide which colors will work for our purposes.

>

> I'll respond to my other thread, so at least it gets documented - this

> is regarding the printing issue with the strip chart (where it was printing

> some grid lines and not others) as I have my final conclusions on the

> entire mess.

>

> If anyone has solutions on how to optimize it I'm all ears - I'm new to

> reportlab so I'd love to hear some feedback.

>

> You can download the script from here:

> http://www.jrcresearch.net/downloads/scripts.zip

>

> Thanks again for your help Tim!

>

> -J

>


Drawings are in fact flowables by default ie

class Drawing(Group, Flowable):
    ......

so you should be able to create a Drawing, add it to a story and then get the 
story to build as in the normal page flow case.
-- 
Robin Becker