On Sep 23, 10:12 am, Boris Borcic <bbor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > > flebber wrote: > > >> Has anyone had much success with python macro's. Or developing powerful > >> macro's in an language? > > > I did an application for my own use recently, involving automatically > > generating invoices in editable OOWriter format from my billing database. I > > gave up on all the PyUNO stuff, and used ODFPY instead—so much easier to > > generate ODF directly, without having to go through OpenOffice code. > > > And OpenOffice has been able to open the results for final tweaking just > > fine. > > A nice package to manipulate Ooo text documents with python is the pod module > of > the appy framework. It uses the same approach with a twist.
One of our guys, David Chan, has done something you may find useful, 'OpenDocMill': http://www.troi.org/opendoc-mill.html We use it to produce some quite complicated documents, for example Engineering Reports, Invoices, Certificates. Best wishes, John -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list