Yup, reportlab is one of the packages that made me think that .pdf was the answer, ghostview and the mac OS X Quartz layer are the others.
I'm just lazy and want to actually write as few data conversion routines as possible ;-) And I'm stupid so writing my own FEA engines and reproducing SAS are kind of out of my reach... and affording a license for a *nix or even OS X version of SAS or ARC/View-spss is way out of my reach at this stage of the life cycle. On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Bob Miller wrote: > 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. > > -- > Bob Miller K<bob> > kbobsoft software consulting > http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi)
