Hi All
I've been using the pyRTF module to generate some documents that I need
for work. In general, the module is good, and pretty simple to use.
However, I am running into a problem with footers that doesn't quite
make sense to me.
My question is this: Is it possible to change the text of a footer
throughout an RTF document?
The data that I am using to produce my document is organized in a
simple header/detail relationship. The document I want to produce
looks roughly like this:
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USER001
detail data line 1
detail data line 2
detail data line 3
page footer that says "USER001, plus some other information"
**page break**
USER002
detail data line 1
detail data line 2
detail data line 3
page footer that says "USER002, plus some other information"
**page break**
USERnnn
detail data line 1
detail data line 2
detail data line 3
page footer that says "USERnnn, plus some other information"
END OF DOCUMENT
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I've gotten everything the way I want, except for the footer. The
footer appears on the first page, but not on any other page.
The code that generates the footer is (apologies in advance for poor
style):
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def MakeFooter(self, facilitatir, startDate, endDate, tuID):
section = Section()
self.doc.Sections.append( section )
p = Paragraph( "%s - %s (%s - %s)" % ( facilitator, tuID,
startDate, endDate ), LINE )
p.append( 'Page', PAGE_NUMBER, ' of ', TOTAL_PAGES )
section.Footer.append( p )
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The logic that calls MakeFooter is:
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tuDoc = MakeTUDoc()
DR = Renderer()
for i in range( start, end + 1 ):
key = "Traininguser%03d" % ( i )
tuDoc.MakeFooter( facilitator, startDate, endDate, key )
tuDoc.MakeHeader( key, module )
< code to populate the document with detail data >
DR.Write( tuDoc.doc, tuDoc.OpenFile( 'JUNK' ) )
print( 'DONE!' )
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(Note: the MakeHeader() method doesn't put an actual RTF header in the
document-- it just puts text in a Heading1 format into a section at the
top of the page, before the detail data.)
I had a look at the RTF 1.5 specification
(http://www.biblioscope.com/rtf15_spec.htm), and regarding headers and
footers and it's pretty thin. I didn't see anything in the
specification regarding support for changing footer text throughout the
document. Nothing in there that said I could do it, either.
Any ideas, anyone?
Thanks in advance. This is an extremely helpful discussion group.
-Doc
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