As far as I can tell getting vector artwork into reportlab in a sensible manner (i.e. aside from generating raw pdf commands) is practically restricted to using svg.

Dinu Gherman’s svglib is the tool to use.

Given tiger.svg, svglib and:

from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
from reportlab.lib.units import cm
from svglib import svg2rlg, svg2pdfc = canvas.Canvas("hello.pdf")
 
c.drawString(9*cm, 22*cm, "Hello World!")
drawing = svg2rlg("tiger.svg")
drawing.drawOn(c, 200, 200)
 
c.showPage()
c.save()

(source)

You get: hello.pdf

Apparently svglib only implements a subset of svg but should be usable in many circumstances.

Easy peasy.

I looked into what writing this macro would mean by going through the open komodo source only to arrive to the conclusion that it wasn’t possible.  I started this thread on the activestate community forums:  tab title restriction hurts Komodo’s usability for Django projects. Shane Caraveo came to the rescue and thankfully proved me wrong by posting a macro that sets tab titles.  Here’s what I see now:

This macro is a slight extension of his work.  My version only shows the immediate parent directory and the current filename, not the entire path.  And I only modify the tab title for python files.

Even though some aspects of the api need further documentation this is a testament to Komodo’s extensibility.  While I like Komodo, I do think it could use better textmate-like snippet insertion (auto-completion of snippet names would be a good start).

Caveat: I’m guessing this doesn’t work on windows because of the slash.

Add an on startup trigger for it.
http://dpaste.com/hold/47625/

try {
var vm = ko.views.manager.topView;
var box = document.getAnonymousNodes(vm)[0];

// get the views-tabbed elements
var tabset1 = box.firstChild;
var tabset2 = box.lastChild;

// replace the updateLeafName implementation to use something different
// for the tab label
tabset1.updateLeafName =
tabset2.updateLeafName = function(view) {
    view.parentNode._tab.label = view.title;
    if (view.document) {
        var language = view.document.language;
        if (language == 'Python') {
            var parts = view.document.displayPath.split('/');
            var len = parts.length;
            var label = '';
            if (len > 2) {
                label += parts[len-2] + '/';
            }
            label += parts[len-1];

            view.parentNode._tab.setAttribute('crop', 'start');
            view.parentNode._tab.label = label;
            view.parentNode._tab.setAttribute('tooltiptext',view.document.displayPath);
            this.tabbox.firstChild.scrollBoxObject.ensureElementIsVisible(this.tabbox.firstChild.selectedItem);
        }
    }
};

// the "on startup" trigger happens after files
// are opened, so we need to call updateLeafName
// for each opened view.  Files opened after startup
// will be fine
var views = ko.views.manager.topView.getViews(true);
for (var i=0; i < views.length; i++) {
    if (views[i].document) {
        views[i].updateLeafName(views[i]);
    }
}

} catch(e) {
    alert(e);
}

{{ object|quick_url }}
<a href=”/object/absolute/url”>Object String Representation</a>

Also posted on djangosnippets: http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/730/

from django import template
from django.utils.html import conditional_escape
from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
register = template.Library()
 
def quick_url(addressable_object, autoescape=None):
    '''filter to provide a url for a model instance'''
    if not hasattr(addressable_object, 'get_absolute_url'):
        return addressable_object
    if autoescape:
        esc = conditional_escape
    else:
        esc = lambda x: x
    result = '<a href="%s">%s</a>' % (esc(addressable_object.get_absolute_url()), esc(addressable_object))
    return mark_safe(result)
quick_url.needs_autoescape = True
register.filter(quick_url)

If I had listened to twid for 04-27 I would have known this sooner.