Thanks very much for your reply, especially the concerns you've raised (I'll try to make sure if we end up making this work, I bear that in mind when testing)!

That would be a question for the piddle mailing list (is it still active?).

I remember trying a list before, pretty sure it was at sourceforge, and getting no real response, so I was just hoping someone here could help.

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Error: Value 'pdfgen' module has no attribute 'Canvas' Canvas is a class defined in pdfgen.

... well, apparently it's not. Either that's the wrong name, or it lives somewhere other than pdfgen. Sorry, I haven't looked at piddle in a long time and don't have it

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handy...

As far as I can see, it is - but then I've been known to be wrong once or twice (an hour). This is a snip from the pdfgen.py file that I copied into lib: class Canvas: """This is a low-level interface to the PDF file format. The plan is to expose the whole pdfgen API through this. Its drawing functions should have a one-to-one correspondence with PDF functionality. Unlike PIDDLE, it thinks in terms of RGB values, Postscript font names, paths, and a 'current graphics state'. Just started development at 5/9/99, not in use yet. """ def __init__(self,filename,pagesize=(595.27,841.89), bottomup = 1): </snip> I could obviously copy more if necessary, I don't know if it would help .. ? It works fine when called outside of Zope, its just when I try it in Zope that it doesn't work. Any inspiration, anyone ... ? _________________________________________________________________ On the move? Get Hotmail on your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/mobile