[Zope] Zope and PDF

[Steve Alexander]

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.

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Steve Alexander
Software Engineer
Cat-Box limited