Hi, you can realize absolute positioning by the TeX package texpos <https://ctan.org/pkg/textpos>. But I don't know PollyReports very well, I only heard of it. Thus, do you have an example PDF on what you want to generate?
Regards Clemens On Monday, November 2, 2020 at 12:51:40 AM UTC+1 DenesL wrote: > 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/web2py/524d7855-4a73-43fb-9987-40ff97660fe5n%40googlegroups.com.
