[reportlab-users] SplitImage flowable

[Dinu Gherman]

Hi,

I've written a SplitImage flowable, that should be able to wrap and 
split "long" images as they seem to become increasingly popular on the 
net in Platypus documents. It only splits vertically without squeezing 
the image horizontally into an available frame, which would be rather 
easy to do in a preprocessing step.

So far, I haven't tested it very much, but wrapping/splitting in the 
attached code sample seems to work. There are some shortcomings, though, 
to which I'd like to solicit comments from the knowledgable people on 
this list.

One issue is that the code generates temporary files on the disk which 
I'd like to avoid, but the Image flowable seems to make that hard, or 
maybe I haven't done it as expected, yet. And the second is, that the 
code for the splitting is slightly obscur, and I wonder if there is a 
better way of accessing the flowable's internal image instead of making 
a new one for it?

Thanks,

Dinu

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