I have a need to create PDF files from a Zope application. I have been reading this thread on PDFs. I have no idea how to start creating pdf files. I have taken a look at reportlab and it looks all a bit too complex for what I want. I just what to convert an HTML doc to a PDF doc. Sounds simple enough. Anyway, could anybody give me some hints as to where I should start. A couple of URLS or how to links. Thanks Tom => -----Original Message----- => From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of => Joachim Schmitz => Sent: Friday, 19 October 2001 5:41 PM => To: Steve Alexander => Cc: Timothy Wilson; stephan.goeldi@datacomm.ch; zope@zope.org => Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope and PDF => => => Hi, => => I use a different aproach to generate PDF in my simple officemanagement I => built with Zope and ZPatterns. => => On the inputform for my invoice generator I have a button "write => invoice", => this calls a python script outside of Zope with the invoice-nr => as parameter. => This python programm gets its data from Zope via xml-rpc, it could also => report back to Zope when it is ready. => => Mit freundlichen Grüßen => => Joachim Schmitz => => AixtraWare, Ing. Büro für Internetanwendungen => Hüsgenstr. 33a, D-52457 Aldenhoven => Telefon: +49-2464-8851, FAX: +49-2464-905163 => => On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Steve Alexander wrote: => => > Timothy Wilson wrote: => > => > > => > >>>A customer wants no more to produce print AND web => documents. He decided => > >>>to only produce web documents of good quality and let the customers => > >>>print it out if desired. His idea is, to offer a HTML version for => > >>>browsing and a PDF version for printing. => > >>> => > >>Sure. I'm doing that using ReportLab. => > >> => > > => > > Steve, => > > => > > Here's something that's crying out for a HowTo. I'm sure => there are many => > > folks who would be interested in knowing more about creating => PDFs from Zope => > > using ReportLab. => > => > => > There's been some talk of this, and some examples, on the => ReportLab mailing list. => > => > => > => > I don't generate PDFs from within Zope. I get Zope to write out a => > specification file into a directory on the filesystem. This => directory is => > "watched" by a long running python process (the report => generator), which => > looks in a number of directories on the server every 10 seconds to see => > if there are new files there. => > => > These specification files are added to a queue in the report generation => > software. Reports are generated, and output into a directory that is => > visible to the outside world via Apache. The reports are given a long => > unique random filename. => > => > Finally, the report generator notifies the Zope that requested the => > report that the report is ready, and of the filename the => report is saved => > under. => > => > When I start running out of disk space, I'll write a script that gets => > rid of old reports. => > => > -- => > Steve Alexander => > Software Engineer => > Cat-Box limited => > => => => => _______________________________________________ => Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org => http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope => ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** => (Related lists - => http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce => http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) =>