On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Bjorn Stabell wrote:
Evan wrote:
Unless you want to generate PDF or Postscript files on the fly, you are *not* going to get what you want from a browser-based application, regardless of the server. Neither Zope nor any other Web App can control how your browser will print an HTML page (AFAIK).
There is a PDF package for Perl, but I don't know of any for Python. If there are, then you can relatively easily generate PDF on the fly.
I have a dynamic PDF generation library and a minimal html to PDF conversion script (enough to support Structured Text) all written in Python. No table support yet. You can get it from: http://starship.python.net/crew/pavlos/ It was originally intended to provide PDF support for Zope but it is a bit slow, unless some caching scheme is used. There is one more PDF library for python by Andy Robinson but I do not remember the URL. Pavlos