* Steve Manning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20031209 13:22]: > I want to create a PDF version of a database report for downloading. Does > anyone know of a way to dynamically generate PDF's within AOLserver?
I'm using the free python library reportlab ( http://www.reportlab.org/ ) which gives you a high flexibility in the layout, but you need to exec a process from withing aolserver and deal with the database access somehow. I used pythons capabilities to connect to the db, but it's quirky and would be much nicer to have a way to use openacs' database access procs for generating reports. See a litte demo running reportlab from within aolserver (openacs) here: http://tsinger.com/cards/ (provider troubles, so this is not really reliable). If anybody knows a free way to generate pdf's directly from tcl with precise control over the layout I'd be highly interested. I assume that all html -> pdf methods do not have the intention to provide this control. til -- http://tsinger.com -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
