help with pdf template handler that supports layouts

Plugins such as prawnto and prawn-rails don't support layouts (eg. application.pdf.prawn), and I thought I'd try writing a prawn template handler that does (or helping those projects support it).

Currently my attempt is failing b/c rails renders the template (eg. show.pdf.prawn) before the layout. I know this is the default implementation, that the result of rendering the view gets yielded to the layout, but is this necessarily so? I could hazily imagine a world in which the layout is called like 'normal' ruby, and the template is evaluated once it hits the yield... I thought this had to do with streaming support, but enabling it didn't make it render in-order like I thought it might.

Is this do-able, or am I missing something?