Larry Price wrote:
> I'm looking for a good toolkit to do data analysis
> and present the results as .pdf
Anything that will produce Postscript will also produce PDF through
ps2pdf.
You might consider rendering HTML pages using Mozilla. HTML isn't a
great layout language, but it's easy to generate and you already know
it.
I assume you're concerned about generating graphs and charts. There
are several charting packages for web servers -- it shouldn't be too
hard to adopt one of those to your application.
I was just searching the Debian packages, and I noticed
python-reportlab. I don't know anything about it.
Package: python-reportlab
Depends: python (>= 2.1), python (<< 2.2), python-xml
Suggests: pdf-viewer, python-egenix-mxtexttools
Description: ReportLab library to create PDF documents using Python
ReportLab is a library that lets you directly create documents in
Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) using the Python programming
language.
.
ReportLab library creates PDF based on graphics commands without
intervening steps. It's therefore extremely fast, and flexible (since
you're using a full-blown programming language).
.
Sample use cases are:
* Dynamic PDF generation on the web
* High-volume corporate reporting and database publishing
* As embeddable print engine for other applications, including a
'report language' so that users can customize their own reports.
* As 'build system' for complex documents with charts, tables and
text
such as management accounts, statistical reports and scientific
papers
* from XML to PDF in one step
>From the description, it sounds like just the thing.
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