Re: Get Total Page Count
Tim Roberts <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.python.reportlab.user |
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| Organization | Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. |
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Mike Hostetler wrote:
> Next newbie question...
>
> How can I get the total page count of the document to be in the PDF? I
> need a footer with "Page x of Total". Will I have to do a "pageCallback"?
It's trickier than that. ReportLab does not construct the whole
document in advance, so it doesn't know the total page count at the
point it is completing page 1.
There are web sites that describe the process. Some of them just render
twice and fill it in the second time, but it's easier to use a "form",
which is a block of PDF that can be referred to multiple times. You'd say
canvas.doForm("PageCount")
in your footer, then at the end of the document you'd fill out the form:
canvas.beginForm("PageCount")
canvas.drawString( 0, 0, str(total_pages), ... )
canvas.endForm()
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Tim Roberts, [email protected]
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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