Steve, Just a question: Do you make an html/xml page and let reportlab translate it or do you make 2 converters. eg for instance you query across a zsqlmethod and display it in html and for the pdf file, you interate across the same zsqlmethod but create reportlad code. or do you query across a zsqlmethod and display it in html and then the pdf file is created from that page. Thanks, Tom. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Alexander" <steve@cat-box.net> To: <stephan.goeldi@datacomm.ch> Cc: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 11:54 AM Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope and PDF
Stephan Goeldi wrote:
Is there a preferable way to do the following:
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.
I saw that there are products, which produce HTML code out of PDF files. Are these products stable and usable?
I haven't used those.
Is this a possible professional solution, to let the customer upload a high-resolution PDF file, and let Zope produce a monitor optimized HTML-version of this PDF?
I suggest storing structured data in your Zope server, and from that producing whatever output formats you need. See the structured text package that comes with Zope for an example of that.
-- Steve Alexander Software Engineer Cat-Box limited
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