On Thu, December 2, 2004 3:25 pm, Nick Rout said: > There was discussion on pdf generation last night. I unfortunately > missed the point of Steve Holdaway's question about generating pdf's, > [1] but it had to do with documentation generation IIRC. Forgive me if > the pointer below is irrelevant to the question... > > I have had a bit of a play with reportlab http://www.reportlab.org/ > which is open source, although there is also a > http://www.reportlab.com/ with more sophisticated, but unfree tools. > > Anyway reportlab allows you to generate pdf's using python, and may have > some functionality that Steve desires. > > The reason I was playing with it was that it allows fiddling with FDF > [2] data, which is data used to fill in PDF forms. (You may be familiar > with PDF forms that you can type in, but cannot save unless you have the > full Adobe Acrobat, an example here: > http://www.ird.govt.nz/library/publications/geninfo/ir183.pdf ) > > The ability to save such data in a database and amend it, or create a > template of responses, is quite a bonus. > > > HTH > > [1] because I was fiddling installing ubuntu, nothing to do with the way > Steve expressed the question :-) > [2] FDF=Forms Data Format IIRC > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > PDF's are sort of objective, inasmuch as a single object ( and image, for example ) need only be loaded once, and then referenced throughout the document. I was wittering on about whether laaahtek/support tools this concept, otherwise generated files would, whilst being perfectly valid, potentially suffer some serious bloat in generation.
'twas interesting to me, but probably not to too many others (: Cheers, Steve -- Due to financial crisis the light at the end of the tunnel is switched off
