Re: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application

2005-10-03 Thread Eduardo Elgueta
context of all the threads. I wish you luck. Let us know how you finally do solve the issue Jose Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application From: Eduardo Elgueta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, September 27, 2005 3:07 pm

RE: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application

2005-09-27 Thread jose
you finally do solve the issue Jose > Original Message ---- > Subject: Re: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application > From: Eduardo Elgueta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, September 27, 2005 3:07 pm > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: webware-discuss@lists.sou

Re: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application

2005-09-27 Thread Eduardo Elgueta
t make inserting page breaks an easy task. If what you want is a Crystal Reports like product why not use datavision (http://sourceforge.net/projects/datavision) its free and works ok. Jose ---- Original Message -------- Subject: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application

RE: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application

2005-09-27 Thread jose
get you started, but the jsp and the servlet examples are pretty straight forward and is what I used to write my test code. Jose > Original Message ---- > Subject: RE: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, September 20, 2005 4:

Re: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application

2005-09-22 Thread Christoph Zwerschke
Leith Parkin schrieb: There is also the apache FOP project, however its java based and may not be what your after. http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ As an interesting side node, FOP has been Python based for a while: http://wdvl.internet.com/Internet/Future/fop.html For a comparison Reportlab

Re: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application

2005-09-21 Thread P.C. Boey
Hi I use ReportLab with WebWare and it is really great. You may want to take a look at a sample 27 pages pdf report from http://www.adestiny.com/pdf/SampleReport.pdf The report includes graphs, tables, images manipulated using PIL, etc. The actual reports are dynamically gener

Re: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application

2005-09-21 Thread Leith Parkin
There is also the apache FOP project, however its java based and may not be what your after. http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ On 9/22/05, Christoph Zwerschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eduardo Elgueta wrote: > > I think it's to much work switching from a flow display (html) to a > > position

Re: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application

2005-09-21 Thread Christoph Zwerschke
Eduardo Elgueta wrote: I think it's to much work switching from a flow display (html) to a position based display (reportlab). I'm probably wrong on this, but that's what I saw in the documentation. The high level interface (Platypus) is actually not position based, but based on "Flowables".

Re: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application

2005-09-21 Thread Gregor Horvath
Hi, Eduardo Elgueta schrieb: I was looking for a report solution. From what I've seen of reportlab, it's intended to be used as a page layout tool. I mean, (it seems) I have to do pagination, table splitting and all of those tedious work. Platypus - part of Reportlab - does have this. Not

Re: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application

2005-09-21 Thread Seth Remington
Reportlab will do all of that for you automatically. Check out the high level PLATYPUS engine on pg. 58 of the user guide: http://reportlab.org/os_documentation.html It even terms your documents contents as "Flowables" because they get "flowed" into the document. It will handle page and table brea

Re: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application

2005-09-21 Thread Ian Bicking
Tim Roberts wrote: HTML is about 80% of the way to being the perfect report generation language, but that missing 20% just make it way too unpredictable for general use. PDFs solve that problem, and Reportlab is a great way to create PDFs. Of course (to reiterate myself) if you are convertin

Re: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application

2005-09-21 Thread Eduardo Elgueta
Tim, Thank you for your feed-back. I was looking for a report solution. From what I've seen of reportlab, it's intended to be used as a page layout tool. I mean, (it seems) I have to do pagination, table splitting and all of those tedious work. Not that different from what I already have with

Re: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application

2005-09-21 Thread Tim Roberts
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:07:12 -0400, Eduardo Elgueta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thank you all for your answers. The reportlab/pdf solution doesn't seem quite easy to implement, just as I thought. Besides, I see a lot of trouble ahead downloading/compiling/configuring/learning reportlab and a

Re: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application

2005-09-21 Thread Eduardo Elgueta
oduct why not use datavision (http://sourceforge.net/projects/datavision) its free and works ok. Jose Original Message Subject: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application From: Eduardo Elgueta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, September 20, 2005 12:07 pm To: webw

Re: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application

2005-09-20 Thread Christoph Zwerschke
Eduardo Elgueta wrote: The reportlab/pdf solution doesn't seem quite easy to implement, just as I thought. Besides, I see a lot of trouble ahead downloading/compiling/configuring/learning reportlab and a bunch of other support libraries. Just to make this clear again, ReportLab is really not

RE: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application

2005-09-20 Thread jose
Original Message > Subject: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application > From: Eduardo Elgueta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, September 20, 2005 12:07 pm > To: webware-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net > > Hi All, > > I have a small webware

Re: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application

2005-09-20 Thread Michael Palmer
1. CSS formatting is a good idea, but most browsers don't do a good job at implementing it. For example, works only in Opera but neither in Mozilla nor in IE; they ruthlessly cut right across even table cells and rows. So, if you don't want to count the lines of every page you are putting ou

Re: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application

2005-09-20 Thread Eduardo Elgueta
Geoffrey, I already do that, but, for some reason, some pages have a different column distribution. I think this has something to do with the browser rendering algorithm. I'll try with a more recent version (I'm not sure they have the last version). Thanks anyway, Ed. Geoffrey Talvola escr

RE: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application

2005-09-20 Thread Geoffrey Talvola
Eduardo Elgueta wrote: > Other problem the users complain about, is table column width varies > from one page to the other, which is obvious, given the way browsers > render html (they don't unserstand that, either :-( ). Does anybody > knows if theres a CSS style or HTML property I can use to forc

Re: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application

2005-09-20 Thread Eduardo Elgueta
Thank you all for your answers. The reportlab/pdf solution doesn't seem quite easy to implement, just as I thought. Besides, I see a lot of trouble ahead downloading/compiling/configuring/learning reportlab and a bunch of other support libraries. Transforming my html into pdf, doesn't solve m

Re: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application

2005-09-20 Thread Seth Remington
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 14:47 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote: > > You might also be able to use a tool to render the HTML to PDF on the > server, giving you predictable results (with no browser > inconsistencies). There's things like a standadalone Mozilla setup for > this, and tools no doubt -- I can

RE: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application

2005-09-20 Thread Roger Haase
--- Geoffrey Talvola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might try to produce a "printer-friendly" version of your HTML > reports. > You can use the CSS style "page-break-before: always" on a tag to > force > page breaks where needed. For instance, if your report consists of a > large > HTML tabl

Re: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application

2005-09-20 Thread Ian Bicking
Chuck Esterbrook wrote: Eduardo Elgueta schrieb: I was checking out reportlab, but it seems a lot of work, and I couldn't find tables support. I use reportlab. Has some learning curve, but its worth it. It has tables support. Look at Platypus. I even prefer it upon Crystal Reports, which mak

RE: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application

2005-09-20 Thread Geoffrey Talvola
You might try to produce a "printer-friendly" version of your HTML reports.  You can use the CSS style "page-break-before: always" on a tag to force page breaks where needed.  For instance, if your report consists of a large HTML table, you may determine through trial and error that you can

Re: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application

2005-09-20 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 9/20/05, Gregor Horvath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Eduardo Elgueta schrieb: > > > > I was checking out reportlab, but it seems a lot of work, and I couldn't > > find tables support. > > I use reportlab. Has some learning curve, but its worth it. It has > tables support. Look at Platy

Re: [Webware-discuss] Printing from web application

2005-09-20 Thread Gregor Horvath
Hi, Eduardo Elgueta schrieb: I was checking out reportlab, but it seems a lot of work, and I couldn't find tables support. I use reportlab. Has some learning curve, but its worth it. It has tables support. Look at Platypus. I even prefer it upon Crystal Reports, which makes the easy thing

[Webware-discuss] Printing from web application

2005-09-20 Thread Eduardo Elgueta
Hi All, I have a small webware application in which I need to produce reports to be printed. Right now, html reports produce poor results (pagination is not constant). I bigger companies, we use Crystal Reports, but this is a small non-for-profit organization, so we can't afford commercial so