[Zope] Generate PDF with Zope

[Dennis Allison]

FLORAC,
ReportLab (a great product) is not thread-safe.  How do you serialize use?

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, FLORAC Thierry wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 13:44, Pascal Francq wrote:
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> > If I use reportlab within a Python module in Zope, how should I make th=
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> > interface between Zope and Python function:
> > 1=B0) Creating a local file in the python function and returning a stri=
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> > 2=B0) Something more special, like returning a canvas object which can =
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> > by Zope as a normal Zope object.
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> I use "reportlab" to generate PDF reports with Zope in two ways :
>   1. create a PDF file which is stored in the ZODB ; the result of the
> method call is then a redirection to the given file ;
>   2. create a PDF file "on the fly" which is not stored in the ZODB and
> is returned directly in the response stream.
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> In these two ways, the Python method generates a complete PDF document
> (my documents are based on BaseDocTemplate with custom Flowable
> subclasses) in the form of a string : this string can then be used to
> create a file or returned "as is" in the response.
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> I can send you some examples if you want.
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>   Thierry
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> > On Tuesday 23 March 2004 12:23, David Convent wrote:
> > > Pascal Francq wrote:
> > > >Hi,
> > > >I want to generate PDF document from within Zope. What is the easies=
t way
> > > > to do it? I know there is a python package (reportlab) which provid=
es
> > > > functions to create PDF documents, but I am not sure it is the righ=
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> > > > solution for Zope.
> > >
> > > as far as i know, it is the right solution
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