Re: [AOLSERVER] Generating Dynamic PDF's from AOLs

[Oli Bird]

In a message dated 09/12/2003 15:16:29 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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. While reportlab is all well and good, I've always had decent results using apache's fop transformation engines..   Once again, need to be called as external processes, butyou can generate your xml online, apply some xsl, and then fop transform it to get what you want with remarkably little difficulty.   It's also got a lot more control than html -> pdf stuff.   Oli Bird -- 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.