Hi Clemens does TeX, or any of other formats supported by LyX, store the position on the page (x,y), formatting (e.g. font type and size), alignment or other valuable information about text elements that could be used to generate PollyReports Elements & Bands ?
Regards, Denes On Sunday, November 1, 2020 at 7:52:56 AM UTC-5 Clemens wrote: > Hi, you're right, I'm generate everything, because I need this in my case. > BUT: You can use LyX <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LyX>as WYSIWYG editor > generating the TeX file (pure text). Then just find and replace the things > you want to adapt (e.g. date). This should be easy. If you want to evaluate > this way and you need some more assistance, please let me know. > > Best regards > Clemens > > On Saturday, October 31, 2020 at 11:29:53 PM UTC+1 DenesL wrote: > >> @roger: you are welcome. >> @villas: probably reportlab. >> @ramos: reportbro is open-source license for non-commercial open-source >> or personal projects only. >> @clemens: interesting but you probably have to handle everything e.g. >> page breaks, page headers, etc. , right?. >> >> My need was to generate PDF documents (e.g. invoices) with report >> headers/footers, page headers/footers, detail lines, and even sub-reports >> from database queries without having to handle all the intricacies (e.g. >> page breaks, total, page numbers, etc.) and PollyReports fit the bill in a >> small and easy to use package. >> >> What is missing is a WYSIWYG page designer to simplify the layout >> creation. >> As an alternative I have been looking for a way to convert a template >> created by some open source program such as OpenOffice, FreeOffice, or >> LibreOffice to the bands/elements used in PollyReports but without much >> luck so far. >> >> Regards, >> Denes >> >> On Tuesday, October 6, 2020 at 11:16:18 AM UTC-4 Clemens wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> my fav is just to write a TeX file by Python and then trigger LaTeX to >>> produce the PDF document. I'm using this solution since 2 years after I was >>> really frustrated by the Python PDF packages available. LaTeX gives you all >>> freedom to produces a PDF document, it's perfectly documented (finding a >>> solution for every problem), it's absolutely stable, it can be expanded by >>> packages, you have things like a table of contents ... Long story >>> short: I like it! >>> >>> Regards >>> Clemens >>> >>> On Thursday, October 1, 2020 at 4:58:39 PM UTC+2 DenesL wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> While searching for a Python PDF package I found PollyReports and was >>>> pleasantly surprised by it, and it is also nicely documented. >>>> >>>> PollyReports is a small, light module providing a simple way to >>>> generate reports from databases using Python. >>>> >>>> Reference: https://pythonhosted.org/PollyReports/docs.html >>>> Tutorial: https://pythonhosted.org/PollyReports/tutorial.html >>>> Other features (subreports): https://opensource.gonnerman.org/?cat=4 >>>> >>>> I hope you find it as useful as I did. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Denes >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/web2py/5c442388-25d9-4535-954f-963d87bd6eefn%40googlegroups.com.
