I'm try to generate a report that will span multiple pages and have dynamic content using python reportlab. I have no issues with regards to generating images and then using p.drawInlineImage(signup_img, 100,150) to draw them onto the canvas.
The problem that i have comes when i try to create flowables so that my layout can span multiple pages. The images themselves never actually show up on the page ... # Import pdf generator from cStringIO import StringIO from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas from reportlab.pdfgen.canvas import Canvas from reportlab.lib.styles import getSampleStyleSheet from reportlab.lib.units import inch from reportlab.platypus import Paragraph, Frame from PIL import Image # Create the HttpResponse object with the appropriate PDF headers. response = HttpResponse(mimetype='application/pdf') response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=somefilename.pdf' buffer = StringIO() styles = getSampleStyleSheet() styleN = styles['Normal'] styleH = styles['Heading1'] story = [] #add some flowables story.append(Paragraph("This is a Heading",styleH)) story.append(Paragraph("""This is a paragraph in <img src='http:// images.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/images_hp.gif' width='200' height='200' /> style"\ "",styleN)) c = Canvas(buffer) f = Frame(inch, inch, 6*inch, 9*inch, showBoundary=1) f.addFromList(story,c) c.save() # Get the value of the StringIO buffer and write it to the response. pdf = buffer.getvalue() buffer.close() response.write(pdf) This should generate a pdf with the google image in it no ? The pdf gets generated but no image comes out. When I try the other option of using image flowables, I get only an error. The reportlab docs example shows an Image flowable being called like ... Image("lj8100.jpg") .... but when i try to call the object directly i get an error which suggests that i should use Image.new or Image.open to call the object ... # Create image from /tmp im = Image("/tmp/car_dealership.jpg", width=2*inch, height=2*inch) im.hAlign = 'CENTER' #add some flowables story.append(Paragraph("This is a Heading",styleH)) story.append(Image(im)) TypeError: 'module' object is not callable for the im = Image( ....) When i try to feed the image manually ... interest_image = interests_barchart(request) im = Image.open(StringIO(interest_image.content)) #add some flowables story.append(Paragraph("This is a Heading",styleH)) story.append(im) I get ... AttributeError: getSpaceBefore ... which seems to suggest that im isn't a flowable ... Can anyone help pls ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list