[Zope] Zope and PDF

[Tom Deprez]

> > 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.

That's great Steve! If you one day find some time, would you like to write a
tutorial on that?

Thanks, Tom.