Re: How to mix static positioning and flowables

Hi Andy,

In this case, the static content only appears on the first page. The table
can then continue for however many pages after that as needed. I do have an
older project where I did have the same static stuff on each page with a
flowing table across pages and sub-totals per page that I ended up writing
a hack for. I'm trying not to do that for this one.

- Mike


On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Andy Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Does the static content
> (a) only need to appear on Page 1?
> (b) need to appear identically on every page?
> (c) need to vary by page?
>
> All of these are possible but would use different approaches..
>
> - Andy
>
> On 7 August 2013 16:20, Mike Driscoll <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a project where I'm basically creating a document where the top
> half
> > has to be positioned exactly and the second half is a table that can run
> > multiple pages. I was doing the static part using Reportlab's canvas
> object,
> > but I can't figure out how to make the table split across multiple pages
> if
> > it gets too long.
> >
> > All the resources I've found so far recommend using a Template like
> > BaseDocTemplate, but I don't see any way to use that to mix the static
> > content and the dynamic content on one page.
> >
> > I have attached what I've come up with so far, but the table obviously
> > doesn't split. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
> >
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