[Zope] Zope and PDF

[Tom Deprez]

Steve,

Just a question: Do you make an html/xml page and let reportlab translate it
or do you make 2 converters.
eg for instance you query across a zsqlmethod and display it in html
and for the pdf file, you interate across the same zsqlmethod but create
reportlad code.

or

do you query across a zsqlmethod and display it in html and then the pdf
file is created from that page.

Thanks,
Tom.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Alexander" <steve@cat-box.net>
To: <stephan.goeldi@datacomm.ch>
Cc: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope and PDF


> 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.
>
> --
> Steve Alexander
> Software Engineer
> Cat-Box limited
>
>
>
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