[Zope] Zope and PDF

[Tom Cameron]

I have a need to create PDF files from a Zope application. I have been
reading this thread on PDFs. I have no idea how to start creating pdf files.
I have taken a look at reportlab and it looks all a bit too complex for what
I want.

I just what to convert an HTML doc to a PDF doc. Sounds simple enough.

Anyway, could anybody give me some hints as to where I should start. A
couple of URLS or how to links.

Thanks
Tom

=> -----Original Message-----
=> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of
=> Joachim Schmitz
=> Sent: Friday, 19 October 2001 5:41 PM
=> To: Steve Alexander
=> Cc: Timothy Wilson; stephan.goeldi@datacomm.ch; zope@zope.org
=> Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope and PDF
=>
=>
=> Hi,
=>
=> I use a different aproach to generate PDF in my simple officemanagement I
=> built with Zope and ZPatterns.
=>
=> On the inputform for my invoice generator I have a button "write
=> invoice",
=> this calls a python script outside of Zope with the invoice-nr
=> as parameter.
=> This python programm gets its data from Zope via xml-rpc, it could also
=> report back to Zope when it is ready.
=>
=> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
=>
=> Joachim Schmitz
=>
=> AixtraWare, Ing. Büro für Internetanwendungen
=> Hüsgenstr. 33a, D-52457 Aldenhoven
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=>
=> On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Steve Alexander wrote:
=>
=> > Timothy Wilson wrote:
=> >
=> > >
=> > >>>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.
=> > >>
=> > >
=> > > Steve,
=> > >
=> > > Here's something that's crying out for a HowTo. I'm sure
=> there are many
=> > > folks who would be interested in knowing more about creating
=> PDFs from Zope
=> > > using ReportLab.
=> >
=> >
=> > There's been some talk of this, and some examples, on the
=> ReportLab mailing list.
=> >
=> >
=> >
=> > I don't generate PDFs from within Zope. I get Zope to write out a
=> > specification file into a directory on the filesystem. This
=> directory is
=> > "watched" by a long running python process (the report
=> generator), which
=> > looks in a number of directories on the server every 10 seconds to see
=> > if there are new files there.
=> >
=> > These specification files are added to a queue in the report generation
=> > software. Reports are generated, and output into a directory that is
=> > visible to the outside world via Apache. The reports are given a long
=> > unique random filename.
=> >
=> > Finally, the report generator notifies the Zope that requested the
=> > report that the report is ready, and of the filename the
=> report is saved
=> > under.
=> >
=> > When I start running out of disk space, I'll write a script that gets
=> > rid of old reports.
=> >
=> > --
=> > Steve Alexander
=> > Software Engineer
=> > Cat-Box limited
=> >
=>
=>
=>
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