[Zope] [possibly OT] html2pdf on zope

[AM]

The problem is that it works from the command line, the very same 
command that is called in the popen in the script on the how-to.

Just that if I try to access it via a browser on windows thats what I get.

Try the following URL:

http://nbs.neuro-bs.com/index_html/html2pdf

TIA
AM

Bob Corriher wrote:

> When I use it on Linux (RedHat 8.2), I use the method in the how-to 
> with no changes and haven't had any problems. I only saw the "file 
> does not start with %PDF" problem on Windows. The popen2 call was 
> returning a file in text mode instead of binary mode.
>
> Popen2 is documented here: 
> http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-popen2.html
>
> Looking at the documentation, it says that the default mode is  't' 
> (text) , so perhaps the mode parameter is required for Linux also, 
> although it works for me without it.
>
> Bob Corriher
> P-Wave Inc
>
>
> AM wrote:
>
>> But how do I get it to work on Linux then??
>> TIA
>> AM
>>
>> Bob Corriher wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi Bo,
>>>
>>> My bad. I didn't mean that HTMLDoc wouldn't work on Linux, just that 
>>> the 'b' parameter to popen2 probably isn't the problem, as it is the 
>>> default in the Linux python library.
>>>
>>> I've had good success with HTMLDoc for most projects. I do use 
>>> ReportLab for database type reports, but not where I already have 
>>> HTML code generated as HTMLDoc does a much better job of that. It 
>>> does not support CSS however, so I sometimes have to generate 
>>> alternate HTML using the <FONT> tag and other "standard" HTML 
>>> constructs.
>>>
>>> You're right about parsing with Reportlab. I originally started 
>>> using HTMLDoc when some of our users began embedding HTML in content 
>>> and it became more and more difficult to handle the tags in Reportlab.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if Unicode will cause you a problem in HTMLDoc as I've 
>>> not had to use it.
>>>
>>> Reportlab and HTMLDoc are the only PDF generation tools I've used 
>>> and I don't know of any others.
>>>
>>> Bob Corriher
>>> P-Wave Inc.
>>>
>>>
>>> Bo M. Maryniuck wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wednesday 19 March 2003 18:47, Bob Corriher wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>> If you're on Linux or Unix, this probably isn't the answer.
>>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Have you good solution to use Unicode with it? I would not like to 
>>>> start coding a parser with ReportLab. But if no solution, I will... :/
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>
>>
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