[Zope] [ANN] ZpdfDocument-0-0-1
Pavlos Christoforou
pavlos@gaaros.msrc.sunysb.edu
Wed, 3 Nov 1999 19:55:53 -0500 (EST)
Hello Zopistas
With all the ZDP excitement and discussions related to nicely formated
documents, I would like to do an early release of ZpdfDocument. It creates
relatively nice formatted PDF output from structured text or HTML. You can
download it from:
http://www.zope.org/Members/gaaros/ZpdfDocument
ZpdfDocument
ZpdfDocument is Zope wrap around Zpdf (included in the distribution)
providing a through the web
interface and management of style parameters as properties,
similar to a standard Zope DTML Document. Generated PDF documents
are cached in volatile attributes.
Zpdf
Native python library for generating Portable Document Format (PDF)
documents. Provided mainly in support of StruturedText and is
therefore limited to text. However it
provides a nice class interface to PDF document generation.
The main structure in a PDF document is a Document which contains a
number of elements defined in the elements.py module. The pages are
collected in a hierarchical manner under a root object and can share
common resources through shared dictionaries. The PDF language is,
like postscript a general page description language, and provides no
tools for higher level document formatting. The object model of this
module was designed for simple applications and facilitates easy
document formatting.
Pavlos