Re: Adjusting flowable position

The easiest way to do this will be by writing your own Flowable class.
 It needs a wrap() method to return the desired size in the story, and
a draw() method to draw the bitmap and the line (and, possible, any
other key strings like 'Signed: ___' ) wherever you want.

Look in reportlab/platypus/flowables.py at the class XBox, a
super-simple custom flowable which draws a box with two big diagonals
(we had the name before MIcrosoft did!).  This should be an easy one
to copy and adapt.

Hope this helps...

On 7 November 2013 17:25, Elver Loho <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to solve a quite specific problem. I'm generating various
> reports, which all need a signature. In the interest of expediency,
> the client wants to have his signature affixed automatically and for
> that purpose I have been provided a transparent PNG of his signature.
> The problem is, however, that for a signature to look "natural", it
> should slightly overlap the line below it.
>
> While ReportLab provides magnificent functionality for putting an
> image, such as a signature, in a table and underlining the specific
> cell, I am unable to find any sort of functionality, which would
> accomplish what I wish to do.
>
> The normal approaches to solving this issue have been unfruitful. I am
> unable to find any functionality to tweak a flowable's z-order and
> position following its placement, nor any support for getting a
> flowable's position post-placement, so as to draw the signature on top
> of a placeholder, with slightly tweaked coordinates. However, my
> experience with ReportLab has been brief and it is likely I've missed
> some obvious functionality.
>
> Has anyone faced a similar problem? How did you go about solving it?
>
> Best,
> Elver
>
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