iain duncan wrote: > On Mon, 2007-16-07 at 08:28 -0300, Jorge Godoy wrote: > >> On Monday 16 July 2007 05:21:42 Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >> >>> On Monday 16 July 2007 07:12, iain duncan wrote: >>> >>>> I would like to add the option for my client to download ready to print >>>> invoices as one big doc, and am wondering what people would use to do >>>> that. I have heard good things about the Apache POI project, but it >>>> seems to have only Ruby bindings. Anyone have any suggestions of what >>>> they like? >>>> >>> Use PDF and reportlab. >>> >> Yep. And for the RML implementation, to make your life easier, you can try >> z3c.rml. It isn't as complete as the commercial version sold by ReportLab, >> but it is the most complete free alternative that I've found and it works >> *VERY* well. >> > > Thanks everyone. The report lab solution looks the best, I think they > will be fine with PDF. I'm a bit confused though, is z3c.rml a package > that gives one an open source alternative to RML, and RML is a way of > making the reports from an xml based markup *instead* of using the raw > report lab api? > > Specifically, I'm trying to make a packing slip/invoice hybrid. Any > pointers to examples would be great, and in the meantime I'll keep > googling. =) > > Iain > > > > > > I used the tutorial in the link below to get me going with the TurboGears generation of the report:
http://achievewith.us/public/articles/2007/02/21/produce-pdf-pages-with-turbogears-cheetah-and-reportlab I just finished a Reportlab program to build invoices for our organization and it is working really well. I can send you the source directly if you're interested. Obviously the data access stuff might be hard to follow, but the program is fairly easy to understand.... -Jim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
