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[Justas <justas@xxxxxx>]

On 02/17/2012 01:23 AM, Douglas Cerna wrote:
> Thanks Justas! When you're OK with these changes I'll merge my branch.
>
> Now I need your help with another thing:
>
> I tried to insert a photo in a PDF. Just for testing, I tried to modify the default report template inserting an image directive with its file attribute pointing to the photo url.
>
> The problem is that z3c.rml.attr.File.fromUnicode uses urllib.urlopen to retrieve the resource, which produces a Forbidden page, since the request doesn't have session info :( You end up with an IOError, because PIL.Image tries to open the HTML.
>
> Is there a way to modify z3c.rml behavior when processing<image ...>  directives?
>
> Let me know what you think.

  If you merge with trunk, you can start using:

<image tal:attributes="imageName student/photo/@@data_uri" ... />

  to embed images in RML.

Cheers,
Justas