The link to the PDF-pages of Andy Robinson is http://www.robanal.demon.co.uk/pdfgen/index.html

He has the goal to make PDFgen a powerful report generation library besides various other uses. It's pure python and at the moment not constraint by a commercial license. Better check with Andy about future changes.

Ah, excellent. So much for pdf generation. While we're on the subject of pdf - does anyone know about (python) tools to extract information from a pdf document apart from ps2text (so that they become searchable from within ZCatalog, and I do not have take resort to MS IndexServer, which is less than comfortable)? Rik