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ReportLab LayoutError: too large on page

I'm doing my first program using ReportLab where I don't know in advance where the page breaks will fall and I'm having trouble. To keep things simple I'm using the SimpleDocTemplate. My flowables look something like this: flowables = [Paragraph("Some title", style=headerParagraphStyle), Spacer(0, 10), Paragr...

Python, generating PDF using ReportLab.Platypus SimpleDocTemplate, date/time in header

Hi, I'm working on a project in Python/Django which uses ReportLab's SimpleDocTemplate to generate PDF documents. All the documents generated have the current date/time printed in the top right corner. I can't see that it's being done anywhere in my code, is this a default behaviour in the SimpleDocTemplate object? How do I get rid o...

Package bash script in "executable" for double-click execution (ideally platform independent)?

I wrote a number of bash scripts that greatly simplify the routine, but very tedious, file manipulation that my group does. Unfortunately, most in my group cannot open a terminal, let alone run scripts with complex arguments. Is there a way to nicely package a bash script into an executable (that accepts arguments) that runs nicely on ...