Draw images with canvas and use SimpleDocTemplate

Question

I\'m writing pdfs with reportlab inside a django view, they are very simple, the header, the contents and the footer.

I\'m using SimpleDocTemplate wich fits very wel

Answer 1

Your best option is to create a subclass of SimpleDocTemplate or BaseDocTemplate. In the build method you will have access to the canvas. If you want to tap into everything that SimpleDocTemplate does, you might try copying it directly from site-packages/reportlab/platypus/doctemplate.py.