Showing page count with ReportLab

Question

I\'m trying to add a simple \"page x of y\" to a report made with ReportLab.. I found this old post about it, but maybe six years later something more straightforward has em

Answer 1

I was able to implement the NumberedCanvas approach from ActiveState. It was very easy to do and did not change much of my existing code. All I had to do was add that NumberedCanvas class and add the canvasmaker attribute when building my doc. I also changed the measurements of where the "x of y" was displayed:

self.doc.build(pdf)

became

self.doc.build(pdf, canvasmaker=NumberedCanvas) 

doc is a BaseDocTemplate and pdf is my list of flowable elements.