Add support for page overlays to support non-trivial page headers/footers about flask-weasyprint HOT 3 CLOSED

Hi @doekman,

Thank you for your comment and for your idea, it looks like a great solution. Next version of WeasyPrint may rely on pdfrw, a library able to edit PDF files. It's opening a large set of new possible solutions like this one, with or without an API in WeasyPrint.

However, your solution doesn't really rely on the Flask part of Flask-WeasyPrint and would be better discussed in Kozea/WeasyPrint#92. Could you please copy your comment in Kozea/WeasyPrint#92?

Thank you!

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My solution does rely on Flask a bit (actually Jinja2) for rendering of the page number (which obviously varies per page). But I get your point, some work should be done in WeasyPrint first.

I added my comment to WeasyPrint, and put my current solution in a gist, so others might use it.

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My solution does rely on Flask a bit (actually Jinja2) for rendering of the page number (which obviously varies per page).

You can use CSS instead of Flask for page numbers 😉.

I added my comment to WeasyPrint, and put my current solution in a gist, so others might use it.

Thanks a lot!

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