[reportlab-users] SplitImage flowable

[Dinu Gherman]

I wrote:


> 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?


For those who are interested, the solution without temporary files is 
attached to this posting... (and it also looks less obscure).

Regards,

Dinu

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