#Copyright ReportLab Europe Ltd. 2000-2004 #see license.txt for license details #history http://www.reportlab.co.uk/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/public/reportlab/trunk/reportlab/docs/userguide/ch3_pdffeatures.py from reportlab.tools.docco.rl_doc_utils import * heading1("Exposing PDF Special Capabilities") disc("""PDF provides a number of features to make electronic document viewing more efficient and comfortable, and our library exposes a number of these.""") heading2("Forms") disc("""The Form feature lets you create a block of graphics and text once near the start of a PDF file, and then simply refer to it on subsequent pages. If you are dealing with a run of 5000 repetitive business forms - for example, one-page invoices or payslips - you only need to store the backdrop once and simply draw the changing text on each page. Used correctly, forms can dramatically cut file size and production time, and apparently even speed things up on the printer. """) disc("""Forms do not need to refer to a whole page; anything which might be repeated often should be placed in a form.""") disc("""The example below shows the basic sequence used. A real program would probably define the forms up front and refer to them from another location.""") eg(examples.testforms) heading2("Links and Destinations") disc("""PDF supports internal hyperlinks. There is a very wide range of link types, destination types and events which can be triggered by a click. At the moment we just support the basic ability to jump from one part of a document to another, and to control the zoom level of the window after the jump. The bookmarkPage method defines a destination that is the endpoint of a jump.""") #todo("code example here...") eg(""" canvas.bookmarkPage(name, fitType="Fit", left=None, top=None, bottom=None, right=None, zoom=None ) """) disc(""" By default the $bookmarkPage$ method defines the page itself as the destination. After jumping to an endpoint defined by bookmarkPage, the PDF browser will display the whole page, scaling it to fit the screen:""") eg("""canvas.bookmarkPage(name)""") disc("""The $bookmarkPage$ method can be instructed to display the page in a number of different ways by providing a $fitType$ parameter.""") eg("") t = Table([ ['fitType','Parameters Required','Meaning'], ['Fit',None,'Entire page fits in window (the default)'], ['FitH','top','Top coord at top of window, width scaled to fit'], ['FitV','left','Left coord at left of window, height scaled to fit'], ['FitR','left bottom right top','Scale window to fit the specified rectangle'], ['XYZ','left top zoom','Fine grained control. If you omit a parameter\nthe PDF browser interprets it as "leave as is"'] ]) t.setStyle(TableStyle([ ('FONT',(0,0),(-1,1),'Times-Bold',10,12), ('VALIGN',(0,0),(-1,-1),'MIDDLE'), ('INNERGRID', (0,0), (-1,-1), 0.25, colors.black), ('BOX', (0,0), (-1,-1), 0.25, colors.black), ])) getStory().append(t) caption("""Table - Required attributes for different fit types""") disc(""" Note : $fitType$ settings are case-sensitive so $fitType="FIT"$ is invalid$ """) disc(""" Sometimes you want the destination of a jump to be some part of a page. The $FitR$ fitType allows you to identify a particular rectangle, scaling the area to fit the entire page. """) disc(""" To set the display to a particular x and y coordinate of the page and to control the zoom directly use fitType="XYZ". """) eg(""" canvas.bookmarkPage('my_bookmark',fitType="XYZ",left=0,top=200) """) disc(""" This destination is at the leftmost of the page with the top of the screen at position 200. Because $zoom$ was not set the zoom remains at whatever the user had it set to. """) eg(""" canvas.bookmarkPage('my_bookmark',fitType="XYZ",left=0,top=200,zoom=2) """) disc("""This time zoom is set to expand the page 2X its normal size.""") disc(""" Note : Both $XYZ$ and $FitR$ fitTypes require that their positional parameters ($top, bottom, left, right$) be specified in terms of the default user space. They ignore any geometric transform in effect in the canvas graphic state. """) pencilnote() disc(""" Note: Two previous bookmark methods are supported but deprecated now that bookmarkPage is so general. These are $bookmarkHorizontalAbsolute$ and $bookmarkHorizontal$. """) heading3("Defining internal links") eg(""" canvas.linkAbsolute(contents, destinationname, Rect=None, addtopage=1, name=None, **kw) """) disc(""" The $linkAbsolute$ method defines a starting point for a jump. When the user is browsing the generated document using a dynamic viewer (such as Acrobat Reader) when the mouse is clicked when the pointer is within the rectangle specified by $Rect$ the viewer will jump to the endpoint associated with $destinationname$. As in the case with $bookmarkHorizontalAbsolute$ the rectangle $Rect$ must be specified in terms of the default user space. The $contents$ parameter specifies a chunk of text which displays in the viewer if the user left-clicks on the region. """) disc(""" The rectangle $Rect$ must be specified in terms of a tuple ^(x1,y1,x2,y2)^ identifying the lower left and upper right points of the rectangle in default user space. """) disc(""" For example the code """) eg(""" canvas.bookmarkPage("Meaning_of_life") """) disc(""" defines a location as the whole of the current page with the identifier $Meaning_of_life$. To create a rectangular link to it while drawing a possibly different page, we would use this code: """) eg(""" canvas.linkAbsolute("Find the Meaning of Life", "Meaning_of_life", (inch, inch, 6*inch, 2*inch)) """) disc(""" By default during interactive viewing a rectangle appears around the link. Use the keyword argument $Border='[0 0 0]'$ to suppress the visible rectangle around the during viewing link. For example """) eg(""" canvas.linkAbsolute("Meaning of Life", "Meaning_of_life", (inch, inch, 6*inch, 2*inch), Border='[0 0 0]') """) heading2("Outline Trees") disc("""Acrobat Reader has a navigation page which can hold a document outline; it should normally be visible when you open this guide. We provide some simple methods to add outline entries. Typically, a program to make a document (such as this user guide) will call the method $canvas.addOutlineEntry(^self, title, key, level=0, closed=None^)$ as it reaches each heading in the document. """) disc("""^title^ is the caption which will be displayed in the left pane. The ^key^ must be a string which is unique within the document and which names a bookmark, as with the hyperlinks. The ^level^ is zero - the uppermost level - unless otherwise specified, and it is an error to go down more than one level at a time (for example to follow a level 0 heading by a level 2 heading). Finally, the ^closed^ argument specifies whether the node in the outline pane is closed or opened by default.""") disc("""The snippet below is taken from the document template that formats this user guide. A central processor looks at each paragraph in turn, and makes a new outline entry when a new chapter occurs, taking the chapter heading text as the caption text. The key is obtained from the chapter number (not shown here), so Chapter 2 has the key 'ch2'. The bookmark to which the outline entry points aims at the whole page, but it could as easily have been an individual paragraph. """) eg(""" #abridged code from our document template if paragraph.style == 'Heading1': self.chapter = paragraph.getPlainText() key = 'ch%d' % self.chapterNo self.canv.bookmarkPage(key) self.canv.addOutlineEntry(paragraph.getPlainText(), key, 0, 0) """) heading2("Page Transition Effects") eg(""" canvas.setPageTransition(self, effectname=None, duration=1, direction=0,dimension='H',motion='I') """) disc(""" The $setPageTransition$ method specifies how one page will be replaced with the next. By setting the page transition effect to "dissolve" for example the current page will appear to melt away when it is replaced by the next page during interactive viewing. These effects are useful in spicing up slide presentations, among other places. Please see the reference manual for more detail on how to use this method. """) heading2("Internal File Annotations") eg(""" canvas.setAuthor(name) canvas.setTitle(title) canvas.setSubject(subj) """) disc(""" These methods have no automatically seen visible effect on the document. They add internal annotations to the document. These annotations can be viewed using the "Document Info" menu item of the browser and they also can be used as a simple standard way of providing basic information about the document to archiving software which need not parse the entire file. To find the annotations view the $*.pdf$ output file using a standard text editor (such as $notepad$ on MS/Windows or $vi$ or $emacs$ on unix) and look for the string $/Author$ in the file contents. """) eg(examples.testannotations) disc(""" If you want the subject, title, and author to automatically display in the document when viewed and printed you must paint them onto the document like any other text. """) illust(examples.annotations, "Setting document internal annotations")