[Zope] Newbie: Creating PDF Documents on the fly in Zope

[Ashley Lloyd]

Thanks for your help.

I've tried following your kind advice, and have had some problems.

The reportlabs installation seemed ok, but on checking (runall.py) there 
were errors reported:

.C:\Python21\lib\reportlab
.EEEFailed to import renderPM.
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....
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ERROR: Test if classes have a doc string.
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program
Files\ZopeSite\lib\python\Shared\reportlab\test\test_docstrin
gs.py", line 164, in test1
    self._writeLogFile(ClassType)
  File "C:\Program
Files\ZopeSite\lib\python\Shared\reportlab\test\test_docstrin
gs.py", line 114, in _writeLogFile
    objects = getModuleObjects(RL_HOME, 'reportlab', objType)
  File "C:\Program
Files\ZopeSite\lib\python\Shared\reportlab\test\test_docstrin
gs.py", line 67, in getModuleObjects
    module = getattr(module, part)
AttributeError: 'reportlab.graphics' module has no attribute 'renderPM'
======================================================================
ERROR: Test if methods have a doc string.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program
Files\ZopeSite\lib\python\Shared\reportlab\test\test_docstrin
gs.py", line 170, in test2
    self._writeLogFile(MethodType)
  File "C:\Program
Files\ZopeSite\lib\python\Shared\reportlab\test\test_docstrin
gs.py", line 114, in _writeLogFile
    objects = getModuleObjects(RL_HOME, 'reportlab', objType)
  File "C:\Program
Files\ZopeSite\lib\python\Shared\reportlab\test\test_docstrin
gs.py", line 67, in getModuleObjects
    module = getattr(module, part)
AttributeError: 'reportlab.graphics' module has no attribute 'renderPM'
======================================================================
ERROR: Test if modules have a doc string.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program
Files\ZopeSite\lib\python\Shared\reportlab\test\test_docstrin
gs.py", line 176, in test3
    self._writeLogFile(ModuleType)
  File "C:\Program
Files\ZopeSite\lib\python\Shared\reportlab\test\test_docstrin
gs.py", line 114, in _writeLogFile
    objects = getModuleObjects(RL_HOME, 'reportlab', objType)
  File "C:\Program
Files\ZopeSite\lib\python\Shared\reportlab\test\test_docstrin
gs.py", line 67, in getModuleObjects
    module = getattr(module, part)
AttributeError: 'reportlab.graphics' module has no attribute 'renderPM'
======================================================================
FAIL: ensure noCWD removes current dir from path
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program
Files\ZopeSite\lib\python\Shared\reportlab\test\test_lib_util
s.py", line 47, in test4
    noCWD=1)
  File "C:\Python21\reportlab\test\unittest.py", line 266, in
failUnlessRaises
    raise self.failureException, excName
AssertionError: ImportError

I tried to install the rlzope demo, but when I got to adding an External 
Method within Zope I encountered an error:

Error Type: ImportError
Error Value: No module named reportlab.platypus.paragraph

It seems to me (but I could be wrong) that the RenderPM / RenderableCharts 
product requires reportlab to be installed

Can anyone provide help on this or PIDDLE/SPING/any other packages that can 
be used in Zope to generate PDF documents on the fly?

Thanks once again

Kind regards

Ashley




From: Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com>
To: Ashley Lloyd <ashleylloyd@hotmail.com>
CC: zope@zope.org
Subject: Re: [Zope] Newbie: Creating PDF Documents on the fly in Zope
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 10:40:06 +0100

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:29:22AM +0000, Ashley Lloyd wrote:
 >
 > I have a few pages in Zope generating info gained from an Interbase DB. 
The
 > pages are fine, except we also want a user to be able to click a button 
on
 > these pages and generate a PDF document for printing, looking pretty much
 > the same but with all the necessary page breaks and associated
 > headers/footers.

I suggest you download ReportLab from http://www.reportlab.com

It includes a demo to create PDF documents from a Zope
External Method.

Alternatively you can use Dirk Datzert's ZRenderPM (IIRC) Zope Product
which uses ReportLab but is higher level than the demo I talk above.

bye,

Jerome Alet

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