Nice! I'm using reportlab at work for some stuff. It's got a lot of promise.
J
Geoff Talvola wrote:
> I was playing around with reportlab (a PDF-generating package for Python), and
> figured out how to get PDFs to be generated and sent directly to the user's
> browser using WebKit, without needing temporary files. In case this is of any
> interest to anyone, here's the code I used. This is a bare-bones example, but
> at least it demonstrates that it's possible to do this.
>
> Reportlab can be found at http://www.reportlab.com/
>
> ###########################################
> import reportlab.pdfgen.canvas
> from reportlab.lib.units import inch
> from cStringIO import StringIO
> from Page import Page
>
> class ExamplePDF(Page):
> def writeHTML(self):
> response = self.response()
> request = self.request()
>
> # Get the number from the request, if any
> string = request.value('string', 'Hello, World!')
>
> # Generate the PDF
> buffer = StringIO()
> c = reportlab.pdfgen.canvas.Canvas(buffer)
> c.setFont('Helvetica', 12)
> c.drawString(inch, inch*10, string)
> c.showPage()
> c.save()
> pdf = buffer.getvalue()
>
> # Set the response headers
> response.setHeader('Content-type', 'application/pdf')
> response.setHeader('Content-length', str(len(pdf)))
>
> # Send it back to the user
> self.write( pdf )
> ###########################################
>
> --
>
> - Geoff Talvola
> Parlance Corporation
> gtalvola@...
>
> _______________________________________________
> Webware-discuss mailing list
> Webware-discuss@...
> http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/webware-discuss
|