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 bunch of
other support libraries.
I think you are dramatically overestimating the effort involved.
Reportlab is a fabulous solution for web printing, in part because one
can guarantee that the output looks the same for every user of your web
site, regardless of what operating system or browser they are using.
There is really no compilation or configuration to be done. Reportlab
is entirely Python (with the exception of one optional DLL, which can be
downloaded in binary form), and configuration consists of "python
setup.py install".
There is no free lunch, of course. There is no "magic reporting fairy"
who can wave her magic wand and instantly give you a reporting
solution. However, there are a bundle of excellent samples in the
Reportlab distribution, and the user community on the mailing list
(http://two.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/reportlab-users) is
fantastic. One of my favorite samples is a simple script which
colorizes and "pretty-prints" Python code. I use it regularly.
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.
You have to make your own decisions, of course, but I don't think you
should discard Reportlab until you've tried it a couple of times.
--
Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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