[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