[Image-SIG] Images in Zope/ReportLab

[Olivier Deckmyn]

Must be name clash between PIL.Image and "Zope".Image ...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Heiner de Wendt" <H.dewendt@systec.de>
To: <image-sig@python.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 9:33 AM
Subject: [Image-SIG] Images in Zope/ReportLab


> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying since days to get this working, and start becoming 
> somewhat desperate.
> 
> I want to use Zope and ReportLab to create PDFs from within Zope. It 
> works in general, but I don't manage to include images in the PDFs. 
> When I do it locally (i.e. without Zope), it works fine, but I just 
> don't manage to access the images in the ZODB in the right way.
> 
> Here's an example code:
> 
> *
> def page1(self,c,my1,my2):
>     c.setFont("Times-Roman",8)
>     c.setFillColorRGB(0.1,0.1,0.1)
>     c.drawString(60,775,my1)
>     c.drawString(60,750,my2)
>     c.drawInlineImage(my2,60,500,width=100,height=80)
> 
> def get(self):
>     import PIL.Image
>     from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
>     c = canvas.Canvas("/opt/zope/2-3-0/pdffiles/pdf1.pdf")
>     my1=str(self.image1.id)
>     my2=str(self.image1)
>     page1(self,c,my1,my2)
>     c.showPage()
>     c.save()
> *
> 
> I've tried various things in the "drawInlineImage" line, even 
> directly giving the image name ('image1'), but ReportLab doesn't find 
> it.
> 
> The strings my1 and my2 give the following results:
> my1 (which is self.image1.id) : <Python Method Object at 8b785f0>
> my2 (which is self.image1): <img src="[complete URL here]/image1" 
> alt=".." height="80" width="100" border="0"/>
> 
> So, when creating the strings, the image *is* found. I just don't 
> know how to correctly access it in the drawInlineImage line.
> 
> Can someone PLEASE help me? I'm really somewhat desperate by now...
> 
> Big thanks in advance,
> 
> Heiner
> 
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